good evening Dwayne here Dry Creek Wrangler stool uh and it is evening the sun is finally gone down enough and it's cooled down enough um I come outside and make a little bit of a video and how about that scenery out there it's pretty nice huh um and there's [Music] Joel he's going to wait wait just a second here it comes ready up there's Mouse um and so it's kind of a nice evening so I'm going to come out here and make a video and uh so I just want to encourage I'm going to I'm
going to encourage you fellas tonight and for some of you ladies get something out of it and you're encouraged I'm happy it's good um but I'm talking to you fellas I'm going to remind you of something tonight that is it's just a reality all right but sometimes we forget the reality of it uh anybody's asking this is a uh EP cillo corillo how you pronounce it Allegiance uh one of the students that just left this week he brought me a box of these and this is a nice cigar so that's what I'm having this evening
uh I want to remind you of something okay and you don't need reminded of it but I'm going to remind you anyhow life is hard okay fellas life is hard it's always been hard from the beginning and it will always be hard Bible says man's days are few and full of trouble all right ever since mankind fell in the garden uh we were told uh that we would eat out of a sorrow of the ground the sweat of our brow and and uh the ground would bring forth thistles and so it's just the nature of
it all right the problem we have today is in this modern world we have movies and we have television and we have social media that are always telling us what life should look like and how a winner should always be a winner and then they tell us what winning looks like and uh for a vast majority out there that's not what winning looks like and it just brings us more down and uh it brings men more down but life is hard and that's the way it's always been it's our lot now if you don't want
to accept that that's that's up to you okay but it's our lot it's our place and it has been for the history of mankind and regardless of how many influencers get on and play a fake game on there and tell you about all this and regardless of how many people get on there and they they make a month of uh men's mental health awareness month or whatever it is life's hard and sometimes we don't need men's mental awareness men's mental health awareness month is that what they call it we need men's grow a set month
we need men stop whining month now I know things are hard for some of you I know things are extremely difficult for some of you things have been hard for me around here I don't get on here and post it not going to now but we all go through it and that's the reason I'm talking to you tonight um sometimes you look at people on the screen and you think that's distant and they're separated and they're not going through what you're going through listen man we all go through it we all go through it I've
had folks get on here and comment Dwayne you look you don't look good man you look tired you look sad you look this you look that look I I go through life just like you do okay I have battles just like you do I stand between my family in the world just like you do and I take the beatings so they don't have to just like you do sometimes I have to stand between the church and my family so they don't have to and I take those beatings so that my family don't have to sometimes
times I stand between myself and my family because I'm just a human too and sometimes we as men we have to take what the reality of what we are and we have to take it we have to crush it down and we have to put it inside and we have to shove it down why because we have to protect our family from us we have to protect our family sometimes from themselves and so we get a Beat from the family because we're standing between the family and what they think they want that's not good for
them and so we stand in the Gap and we pay the price the difference is how do you look at it how do you approach it how do you deal with it how do you admit it and see it for what it is and then what do you do about it what do you do about it you cry about it you mope about it you drink about it you sleep around about it you get mad and getting fights about it you just hang around just turn the world out just zombie about it you fry yourself
a marijuana about it you say Dwayne I'm sad dude that's a part of life you think you're the only man on this planet that's sad say Dwayne I'm going through depression well welcome to the world welcome to the rest of us you think I don't go through depression sometimes you think I don't get sad sometimes you think I don't just feel wore out and burnt Plumb down to the bottom of my soul we all do we all do that's what sets us apart that's what makes us different that's what makes us men we're not men
because we Face the battle and we get immediately Victory every time a battle comes up We're Men because we Face the battle and we stay in the battle when we feel like we're losing and we feel like we're getting beat up but we stay in there and we keep fighting and we plant our feet and we say until death do I part this is me and I will fight this battle regardless of what the battle is being tired is part of fighting go find one MMA fighter one boxer one combatant of any kind who's never
tired who never gets tired who doesn't get so exhausted in the rain that he's just moving on guts alone that's all he's got left is his guts but eventually Here Comes Mama back around here hi Mama you're okay go ahead you're fine are you doing a video I am everybody everybody be happy to have you sorry there's no combatant true combatant that has never gotten to the point where there's nothing left when there's no physical strength left when there's no energy left when there's no speed left when there's no joy left in that fight all
they have left is the will to get back up again and they don't know how they're going to pick their fist up they don't know how they're going to move their feet they don't know how they're going to take another swing they don't know if they're going to be able to get up when that next punch HS them in that fight but that's all they got so they get up they get up and do they look triumphant no do they look all shiny faed no do they walk around in tailored suits talking about their their
uh private aircraft no do they talk about their private collection of cars and their $50,000 doll watches no they look like hell they feel like hell but they fight like hell we all do all real men do you say Dwayne I don't feel like that then you have nothing in your life and you're living for yourself if you have someone in your life something in your life that you care about that you're struggling for there's going to come times when you feel like that and so what I'm telling you tonight is we all this is
just what all of us go through and we have since man fell in the garden the first time 6,000 years ago and we're going to be like that until this ends and Christ comes back and puts everything back in order and fixes everything that we've messed up okay so I'm not getting on here and blowing in your ear and patting you on the bottom and telling you uh that everything's going to be okay I'm telling you quit them open quit winding and get up and keep going the bell will ring on this particular fight that
you're in whatever it may be the bell will ring and that fight will be over none of them last forever none of them last forever but take pride in the fact that you're one of the Chosen Few who's been picked to stand in the door doorway and take the beating so the loved ones behind you don't have to smile in the middle of that fight smile through those bruises smile through that swollen face smile through the blood and when you don't have another smile you just keep standing in that doorway and you keep taking the
blows and you keep fighting back until until that one ends and then sit down with some dignity sit down with some self-respect rest recover and face the next one with the Quiet dignity and the earned Pride that only the warrior who keeps fighting has any right to and no you're not the only one all right all of us are going to it all of us fight the fight okay all right just want to encourage you tonight it's this is just life it's just life and so we keep living life with perseverance and dignity and eventually
you'll win if for no other reason because you outlasted the adversary on the other side all right we'll catch you guys next time
