It's not about a being a punk

I have been watching the movie "Harlem Nights" since I wasn't aloud to.  There's one scene where Eddie Murphy's Character is telling Richard Pryor's character that he is not a punk and he's not afraid to go after and kill anyone that tries to kill him.  This is when Richard Pryor's character says that it's not about being a punk.  He then goes on to say, "What they gon right on your tombstone? Here lies a man 27 years old. He died, but he ain't no punk.  That's not cool."  It got me to thinking about something.  We overvalue how other people will see us.  That's what is called peer pressure.   That is something that you experience in high school, but when you are an adult, the influence of others cease to affect you for you are not a child anymore.  People give their opinions on the actions we do and they critique us through our actions.  We must remember that that is there opinion.  And I have to say this.... DON'T LET NO ONE'S OPINION DICTATE WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU ACT. In the movie "Angus", George C. Scott use to tell his grandson "screw em".  That's what's I'm gonna tell you as well, FU** EM'.  They are not living you life and the advice that they do give you only help that said proponent i.e. them not you.  Stand firm in you adulthood and your own mind.  You don't need to prove anything to know one but yourself.  You don't have to do something to prove a point to someone.  That's just another act of control and peer pressure.  Do what you want to do and if someone don't like it, tell them to go f*** yourself. 

This is why I am a stern supporter in MGTOW (Men Go Their Own Way) because for too long we have let women and society influence how we act on things just to prove that we are a man. You don't have nothing to prove to no one that you are a man.  They didn't make you a man.  

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things".-1 Corinthians 13:11

That verse says a lot.  Yet we still act and think like children. The greatest minds and people were not influence by what others thought of them.  They were their own person and did what they wanted and went their own way.  When you stand in wisdom and logic, you can defeat a lot of arguments brought to you.  That talk with Jesus and the Devil is a prime example.  Let people say that you are this or that and what ever fu** them.  You live your life, I'll live mine.  I think we can all learn a lot by being our own person for that is leadership and true freedom and true knowledge of self.