The Movie Script vs. The Life Lived

Many men walk their homes like actors on high horses.
“I provide. I protect.”
They say the lines well, but their families feel only the absence.
Their presence is missing because they are trapped in a role.

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Provision without presence is a hollow shield.
Protection without intimacy is theater.
A house cannot be led by a man who is only a mask.

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I refuse the movie script.
I live my life, not an imitation.
And in that life, presence is what crowns a man, not posture.