To Be A Man
There's more to being a man that seeing how many phone numbers you can get or who you convince to sleep with you. Being a man means bearing responsibility and accepting the consequences for your actions. This means the most to me because of my pop, Leonard Smith. He's really my little brother and sister's dad, but he became mine, too. My real dad never been much help to me but Pop always has. I remember Christmases from my childhood where he'd walk in the door Christmas morning with a huge trash bag filled with toys and other Christmas goodies. It may not been something that I had asked for, but I enjoyed whatever I got just the same. Pop taught me skills I would need to survive on my own. He taught me patience, sensitivity, courteousness, tolerance, and to keep my priorities straight. He even calls to surprise and asks, "Why you're not in class?" Pop always treated me like I was his son. It means a lot to me that he stepped in my life since my biological dad "didn't have the money" to be there for m
Pop always found a way to show me a different way to life, things that I haven't been exposed to. From visits to the YMCA to watching the Olympic Torch bearers jog through Centennial Park, Pop showed me that I could have pride in myself and in my country. We would always be in attendance to some event that displayed togetherness as a people. Pop has integrated me into his family, also. He takes me, along with my little brother and sisters, to Detroit, Michigan for Thanksgiving every other year. My sisters love our Aunt Lisha to death. She always take her daughter and my sisters out for a "girl's day out." All they'd do is shop in a department store all day. Pop would take my aunt's son with my brother and me to basketball court somewhere; afterwards we'd head to a barber shop. When it came to women, Pop always has had a lesson to teach. He told me to never to hit a woman, because it's wrong. My momma had a different view on that. She told never to hit a woman unless she "puts herself in a man's p
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Approximate Word count = 687
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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