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Sulayman Kone

By Sulayman KonePublished 11 months ago 13 min read
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um you know I was thinking about what

video I wanted to do today

um and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do

and uh I was just I was really just lost

I was just thinking like dang what video

can I bring y'all in

I look out the window and I I live like

right by this hill right and I saw these

cows and these cars were just like kind

of just chilling it was just moving

along and I started thinking to myself

like dang these cows really live a happy

life just moving around eating grass and

taking dumps and that's about it

they really don't need anything and I

started thinking to myself

why is it that we need so much in order

to be happy why is it that we need so

much in order to fulfill and meet our

requirements

yet these animals need so little

these animals need so little yet we need

and requires so much we have to have a

lot of followers on social media we have

to have a lot of women available to us

or Men available to us we have to have a

lot of money we have to have a lot of

all these extracurricular things why is

it that we can't just be happy with

ourselves why is it that people are not

happy just being alive

and I started really thinking for a

second bro

most people don't like being alive

because you worry about the wrong things

too much

you worried about you know girls you

worried about your looks constantly

you're just overthinking every single

thing bro you constantly comparing

yourself you constantly worried about

what people think about you

but truly what I want to tell y'all is

that the most masculine thing that you

could do and the most freeing thing that

you could do and the thing that will

bring you the most happiness is to

actually detach from all of that

detach from the entire world go ghost on

the entire world

stop watching the news

stop paying attention to what's going on

on your Instagram page and your Snapchat

page your Facebook or your b-real or

whatever you got bro

stop paying attention to all of that

that's actually the most masculine thing

that you could do I touched on this a

little bit in one of my previous videos

bro the most masculine man is not

sitting up here bro worried about

worried about

um oh let me watch a cohort cam video

let me watch a Hamza video let me watch

the Andrew Tate video to try and up my

masculinity nah they're in real life

doing masculine things they're taking

care of their family they working out

they're doing things in the real world

bro you have to live in the real world

it's literally the most freeing most

masculine thing that you could do live

in the real world stop living your life

on this digital screen dude

and I started to realize this bro a few

months ago I started to realize because

like as I'm I'm getting older you know

what I mean as you get older part of you

because we're masculine because you get

more mature and everything you know what

I'm saying you get closer to really

becoming the man that you're supposed to

be

and as I've gotten older bro I started

to realize something bro every time I

would open my Instagram

I would I would just be upset

I would just be like repulsed almost you

know what I mean because I would open my

Instagram and I would see you know you

you know you see the girls with the

being promiscuous and stuff like that

that stuff is always like I don't want

to see that on my screen but it wasn't

just that it was everything bruh even

the the relationship advice Pages the

hood feel the content back and forth

City boys up oh this happened that

happened look at how this girl did this

guy look how this guy did this girl the

constant bickering the back and forth

the back and forth people oh I believe

that you can be a man and a woman and

multiple genders and you could be

Spider-Man if you want to you can

identify as the Hulk and all this oh I'm

a family is that just all everyone is

just constantly battling on social media

it's too much noise it's too much BS

going on bruh everybody going back and

forth and back and forth and all of it

is just toxic and I'm just tired of it

bro it's reposing I I can't look I can't

look in the hoodville memes no more

because it's just like it's like it's

like bro this is toxic I don't want to

say this no more bro

I don't it's not even that funny no more

bro

like sure this memes that's funny on

social media and don't get me wrong I'm

not telling y'all you got to delete

Instagram I'm not telling y'all you have

to delete all your socials and stuff

like that but what I'm saying is this

bro everyone on socials is always got

something to say it's always back and

forth back and forth and as you start to

get older when you become more masculine

you start to realize how pointless it

all is bro

it's all pointless because it has no

real effect on your life anything on

Instagram anything it has no effect on

your life

anything that anyone else even says or

thinks about you has no real effect on

you but you allow it to have an effect

on you you allow it to have an effect on

you and that's why your life sucks

that's why you can't enjoy things

because you let what people say and what

people do affect your own actions think

about it like this when you was a kid

bro

all you wanted to do was have fun that

was your main objective we have to get

back to that point of being like kids

everyone is so concerned like bro okay

check this out and I know a lot of y'all

is probably like high school college age

so I know what you thinking bro you want

to be the more grown adult you know I

mean you want to live that club

lifestyle you know what I mean you want

to fit in bro I know y'all wanna act

like you older y'all want to act like

you older bro I remember I was I was in

high school in my senior year I was on a

track team right and there was this girl

that was on the track team or whatever

she was a freshman and she went around

to everyone on the team and everyone

that she knew and she said she said oh

um how old do you think I look I don't

even remember what my response was but

it wasn't you could tell that she was

young but she was talking about oh my

gosh these guys said I look like I was

18. they said I look so old and she was

she said that so proudly and that's just

a testament to how so many kids these

days so many people these days want to

act like they're so much older they want

to be oh I'm older oh you know what I

mean I could do this I could do that

I could be in the clubs I could be drunk

I could be smoking ah I'm cool

but the more you do that the more you

get involved in that the more you start

caring about what other people think the

more you start involving yourself in

degenerate actions

the more you actually get away from who

you really are

the more your life goes downhill

because you're not living for yourself

no more you're living for other people

you trying to act like something that

you're not you're trying to fit in with

other people you're trying to become

you're trying to look cool

stop trying to look cool

it even goes deeper think about it like

this bro

how do you know that you want your dream

car

the only reason you know that you want

your dream card is because somebody else

probably got that car let's just be

honest how you know you want to be rich

because you saw somebody else's

lifestyle and you're like oh I want to

do that oh I want to do that it's always

based on somebody else we need to get

back to when we was like we and I'm not

saying be more immature but what I am

saying is we need to get back to that

point where we just wanted to have fun

and that was it

we wasn't worried about all the worries

that we we wasn't worried about girls or

looks or none of that and you don't need

to Sure these things are important you

should keep your looks up you know you

should work so you can get money and eat

but these things are things that people

worry about too much to the point where

you overthink and you give yourself

anxiety and that's exactly why you have

to get off social media as well or not

necessarily get off of it but you have

to moderate what you what you take into

your eyes bro what you take into your

brain because there's no peace on social

media it's constant back and forth and

back and forth

and that's exactly what I started to

notice that's why I'm not really heavy

on IG like that no more bro

it's just constant constant toxicity

everywhere

constant people you oh these are my

beliefs these are my I don't really care

about your beliefs I'm being honest you

have to respect my beliefs I don't have

to do that I don't have to do none of

that I don't have to care about your

beliefs I don't have to respect them and

I don't want to I don't want to I'm

gonna say in my corner I'm gonna say in

my lane and I'm gonna have fun with my

life and that's it I don't need to argue

with you back and forth about what you

believe I don't need to argue with you

back and forth about why astrology is

Cap I don't need to argue with you back

and forth about why there's only two

two you know only men and women that's

it

I don't need to argue with you back and

forth I don't really care what you

believe you can go live that weird

lifestyle I'm gonna sit over here and do

me and have fun and be masculine and do

what I need to do

you have to detach yourself and stop

trying to live for other people bruh

you have to stop trying to live for

other people all of the time dude

how can you be masculine when you have

no peace

and what I mean by you have no peace is

you caught up in all those articles you

follow oh are you what is this celebrity

doing what is that celebrity doing oh

look what he did look what she did to

him look what he did to her

or you trying to be cool with your

homies oh yeah yeah I'm this I'm that

oh let's go party and do this and don't

do that you don't even like the party

you an introvert

how can you ever have peace when you're

living for everybody else how can you

have peace when you always concerned

about other people's beliefs always

concerned about what other people other

celebrities are doing how can you really

have peace as a man because you need

peace as a man

how can you how how can you and guess

what the opposite of peace is anxiety

and when you have anxiety how can you be

confident as a man if you got anxiety

you constantly worried about the world

you watching the news all the time the

news is so cat they always just putting

something sad so that they can get

ratings bro I'm being real with you bro

how can you be confident as a man when

you just constantly worried about the

world oh look what happened look what

happened I don't blame you they always

putting a new type of shooting or

something like that up there

how can you be confident when all you

consume is bad energy

how can you be confident when all you

consume is people going back and forth

back and forth back and forth people

being toxic

how can you have peace how can you be

confident when you being somebody that

you're not around people that you don't

even really like so that you can so that

you can I don't even know you don't even

gain anything from it

so that you can fit in

the best thing that you can do is detach

yourself as a man bro and the thing is

this too I'm not even on I'm not even

saying that you have to become a monk

and just completely throw away your

phone but what I am saying is this think

about the most fun times in your life

you probably didn't have your phone with

you didn't you I remember the most fun

times in my life I had no service on my

phone and I could barely use it and they

were the best times of my life

you know why because I was living in the

present moment and when I was living in

the present moment I started to realize

like wow I can have fun apart from

social media I can have fun with just

what's right in front of me and people

take that for granted because they think

that they have to be this and they think

that they have to be that oh I can't be

happy until this and this and that

you're never gonna be happy

you want to know why you're never going

to be happy because you're blocking

yourself from your own blessings

how can you be happy when you I need to

do this I need to do this first I need

to do that first and then when you get

those things oh no I need to do this I

need to it's just a negative feedback

loop you're never gonna be happy until

you're content with where you are right

now I'm literally talking right now if

you're watching this video and you're

not happy then you ain't never gonna be

happy if you're broken you're unhappy

you ain't you're gonna be rich and

unhappy too

if you're rich and you're unhappy

Nothing's Gonna Change until you change

bro is what I'm trying to say

get off your phone and really live in

the moment and live life see we get so

caught up when it comes to being

masculine in the in the things like you

know you want to be strong right and

those are great things you know

tradition these are great things these

are great masculine things but we forget

that we are also supposed to enjoy life

we are also supposed to be around people

that make us laugh make us smile it's

okay to laugh and smile bro

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