MAN MOMENTS START WITH BOY MOMENTS; CHERISHED AT EVERY AGE

From May 31, 2008 ON AIR JUDGE WYLD SHOW - Radio Talk

Excerpt from show prep notes. On air content may have been more or less. Not journalistic or debate notes.

Last week I saw a how man moments start…. I saw two boys in a neighborhood…yes… man moments start young… as boy moments.

Nothing starts a boy off in a life of man moments like poverty. Sticks, rocks, dirt, weeds, firecrackers, a pond, and fish. As a matter of fact, a BB gun creates the sweetest manboy moment you ever saw.

It’s that moment that the boy graduates to being a man and all his moments after that moment are forever man moments.

It’s that moment that the boy, who just killed a robin, swears then and forever that he didn’t know it was a robin when he shot and killed it. That the bird was a long way away, and he thought maybe it was a sparrow or some other bird… anything but a robin.

He might even claim he thought it was a leave of the tree and it being so far away there is no way he thought he’d actually hit it… just target practice on a leaf. Until the bird fell off that branch….

And the boy, through all of the reasons why it wasn’t intentional…. Has tears in his eyes… he sits on the curb in front of his house, crying. Wondering if God knows. And if God knows, could he be forgiven.

These are man moments that girls/women don’t have. Don’t understand. Don’t understand how it adds a layer to a boy and layers after that keep being added. The layers make the man that the rest of the world sees, step up to responsibility, overcome sadness to still get a job done, take pity on the dumb and senseless.

And just as much as the layers add toughness to the outside. They preserve the softness on the inside. You see men don’t lose their softness. They just cherish it. They keep it to themselves.

You see something peculiar in the man moments. They started as boy moments. As men we are still acting out our moments, whether boy or whether man, they come from the same place.

The boys I saw were crossing a driveway…crossways…. Grass on both sides of the concrete driveway…. And the one boy who crossed…. Was wearing ONE roller skate… no roller skate on the other foot… no roller skate laying in the grass… no roller skate laying on the concrete… ..where was it??? Where??? GUESS!!!!

THE OTHER ROLLERSKATE WAS ON ONE FOOT OF THE OTHER BOY!!! HEEEEE took his turn to cross the driveway. These boys. Solving the problem of one pair of roller skates to be shared by two boys. They were having fun. They were daring to try something unconventional.

They will grow up from that boy moment to have enriched meaningful and FULL happy lives, living in countless man moments.

Forgive boy moments and forgive man moments. Let them be boys. Let us be men. It really is the best part of us.

Sincerely, JUDGE WYLD