A man is still a man. It matters little that he is fat, slender, short, or tall. He sullies his frame when he submits himself to the dictates of the world outside him. You cannot be tall or lean enough to impress every woman.
And unless a woman lives in the forest, and feeds from trees and shrubs, she has no use deriding short men. That is a mark of congenital inanity. If tall was the benchmark, every tall man would be a polygamist. Yet, we too get rejected by women, & just as frequently, if not more.
When you're tall enough, it is the face that does you in. When you're slim enough, it is poverty that sells you out. Standards shift depending on the woman’s desire. The presence of fat & short men – & women – is a testament to the triviality of these qualities in human evolution
Each body build promises utility for as long as it is kept clean, fit, & active. But in the event that the man cannot help his weight, it should be the last thing on his mind as he obsesses with wealth creation. And when dogged by height, he must obsess with intellect.
We're saying, being fat isn't an injury. While we encourage activity, it must not be in the quest for world approval but internal gratification. Equally, if your height gives you sleepless nights, you must obsess with your mind’s liberation that it might invite the woman of depth
To be anything but yourself, for the sake of geniality, is to live a prisoner. A short man is a man first. He is an individual with soul, passion, and dreams. Dreams are not any closer for the man with long legs: neither is potential any leaner for the man with fat arms.
On matters body, be as deaf as an adder for as long one tries every day to be better than he was yesterday. Physically, emotionally and spiritually. Be as free as a bird; as slippery as Amalinze.

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21 Dec
Let me rephrase this:

Women cooking for men is not an act of servitude in Africa as is peddled by leftism. In the original African context, food is not just about fill, it is a bridge to community. We have sacrificed our wealth already, why must we sacrifice our identity too?
The funny thing is we are sacrificing it for the proclivities of communities that lack grounded identity. There's no white identity. There's no African American identity. But there is the African identity. Yet it's us that act like we have no identity. They should be emulating us
In America, chicken is just chicken. You eat it & sleep. That's why they won't stop eating. They eat morning to night. Nonstop. But in Africa, food is an opportunity for community. Every action seeks community. When we meet, when the women cook, it is not the act, but the symbol.
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21 Dec
I don't understand why cooking for men is an issue in Africa. Food is not just food here, it is a symbol of community. Like the Kola nut. And if 90% of women that say they will never cook for a man are single...
And the fact that you say, you'll never cook for a man, means a man is still in your plans. My women cook for me. I am not going to make a cooking timetable in my house. That's for the modern man. Why an act of love has been turned into an agenda I do not understand.
If you don't want to cook for your man, join that other queue. You will wait a while because the quintessential African man loves food coming from his woman's hands. In America food is just food, in Africa food is a symbol. Or marry an American.
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21 Dec
UNCONVENTIONAL EP1:

In October 2018, a man woke up, bid his wife & child a good day, & rushed off to work. He arrived at his work station by 6:15 a.m., was settled by 7:00 a.m, awaiting a meeting at 9:00 a.m. This was not to be, as an hour later, Mumbo jumped to his death.
In April 1992, a young man of immense intellect and rich background woke up, gave all of his $25,000 in savings to charity, burned all the money in his wallet, and marched into the wilderness. Four months later, McCandless's decomposed body was found in the forest.
In 1884, a former successful stockbroker abandoned his family and the opulence of Paris for the prosaic life of Tahiti, an island in the middle of nowhere. He wanted to paint - that was all the reason he gave. Gauguin died alone, of Syphillis & a destitute.
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20 Dec
I will always defend the man's preference/right to date younger, & childless women. But it is not right to reduce all older women's singlehood & single motherhood to recklessness: Husbands die, boyfriends flee, love dies, and people amicably divorce. Not everyone is desperate.
I say this because I have a sister, & friends. And they are good people. They gave their best, they worked hard, but things did not work out. It is not right that they too should bear the burdens of their reckless peers.
We don't reduce all men's poverty to laziness. We know that some have not been lucky with jobs. We know some got the sack. We investigate the context first. We say, "give potential a chance". And many of us have received that grace from society.
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20 Dec
In the grand scheme of things, wealth & beauty will determine your scale of tolerance. The ugly woman is more tolerant of abuse: the poor man will be his peers' punching bag. It is not right, and I do not know which is worse. But both will suffer.
Counsel must be toned to their realities. If you asked both to value themselves, you'd be speaking braille. They do not understand the language. "Value myself? how?". Value myself on what? The man looks at his pockets, the woman her face, and they decide their fate.
Very few escape that reality. To save the woman, she'll need to be stripped of her mirror, to save the man, he must be given pants without pockets. That he might learn to exist without his pockets. You've heard the term, "know your place", this is what it means.
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20 Dec
We must confront the truth, that this generation, too, has failed to mainstream political sanity. We fault politicians because it is convenient, nay popular. Any meaningful change will have to begin from this base: The leaders we pick are the representation of the majority us.
Internalization of this truth is key to remedy. So far, the default African citizenry response has been to change leaders. We don't wish to change somethings about us, so we change the external: we hope to retain our corruption while enjoying the fruits of good leadership. .
That is why every time we came near salvation, it would be sold for pieces of coins. This is who we are. This is what we do at our workplaces, in the bars, in the dingy hotels. Each of us participates in robbing this continent. We are not its victims. We are its abusers.
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