A collage meme image made by ve4ernik, showing famous fictional badass (strong) men who are a great inspiration to young men... (JUST DON'T MISTAKE BEING YOUR REAL SELF & BETTERING YOURSELF A BIT TO BE MORE MANLY - WITH ACTING LIKE A SUPERMAN-WANNABE IDIOT WHICH WILL EASILY GET YOU HARMED OR KILLED IN REAL LIFE, YOU DUMBFUCK; SLOWLY GRIND & CHILL/REST (alternating between the two!) & SOCIALIZE...)... plus some real-life men who are/were also inspirational...
'It is better to be a mostly-peaceful badass killer-instinct monster of a mostly-strong man with weapons&connections&money&resources&wife/women&somewhat-charitable-from-time-to-time - in a Zen garden/farm... than to be a warrior's-spirit physically-too-weak super-peaceful man acting out as a Superman-wannabe and horribly failing [especially due to lack of friends/friends-tribe support-net, or due to others mocking you cuz they are bigger more-evil more-scammy more-manipulative scum than you are and due to you being too-naive, etc.]...'
A famous video from the film 'The 13th Warrior' which is nice fictionalized depiction of the badass strong men of Europe's Middle Ages - a lost ideal of gritty-realism manly manliness which we have forgotten in the '..., good times make weak men, weak men make hard time..., ...' phase of 21st-century everyday reality in the West & in Westernized countries on planet Earth...
P.S. Yes, this is a sorta-exaggerated fight scene and the film isn't too history-accurate BUT the spiritual message conveyed is beyond inspirational and also manages to cheer me up, so that is why I am sharing it with you.
An image of the Europe's Antiquity's high standards/ideals of manly manliness.
A list of powerful songs and videoclips which promote badass enlightened-'listen here, son, here are the bittersweet truth, now gradually work on yourself and trust your intuition but also reinvent yourself and change your habits and change your surroundings and your companions if life doesn't work out for you currently...' toxic masculinity' which is men's default nature.