SMD🚀

Football x Music | Opinions loud enough to start arguments.

[SMD🚀 @SMD0742]

All artist have a listening audience not because their fans are dumb, but because music is a personality.
Music makes you feel seen/heard in a lonely world.

[✧ @cessonmute]

unpopular opinion about MUSIC do you have that makes people feel like this???

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

This too shall pass. Time is your ally.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

If you don't make a choice, a choice will be made for you - most likely a choice you don't like.

Find the balance of delayed gratification and enjoying life.

Have you seen where a beneficiary is spending inheritance money?

Take care of yourself. Spend on yourself.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I need you to listen to this very carefully.

Actions have consequences.

Consequences are much harsher for men.

Every single decision you make, down to the first phone call you made in January has the potential to take your life down a different trajectory.

ALWAYS THINK.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

There are public narratives lowercasing a man's need for peace as clownish.

Don't succumb or be tempted to revise your standards.

A woman who troubles you more than she inspires you, is a cancer to your soul.

At some point, you'll have to ignore the size of her bumbum. WALK.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Relationship with women is dicey.

It can blossom you finely and it can ruin you faster than FatMan smoked Hiroshima.

There's no benefit to promiscuity.

Your energy drains, your finances suffer, your emotional health nosedives, your ability to see women differently disappears.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Have boundaries. Make them clear to everyone.

Have boundaries for colleagues, your partner, your family, your siblings, your children.

Let your first response of instinct be "No", then slowly roll out on why you should say " Yes".

"No" is a complete statement. Always use it.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

If you're not capable of harm, you're not a good man - you are a weak man.

There's no standard against which your morality is tested.

Learn human psychology - the art of manipulation, choose not to use.

The world isn't an ideal place.

Ur learning isn't to use, but to detect.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Take care of your health.

You should be ashamed of yourself trolleying pot belly in your 30s.

Lift heavy. Check your blood sugar level.

Run blood work at least twice a year. Get a prostate exam.

Don't stick your penis in a woman you don't see yourself procreating with.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Increase your capacity to be lethal.

As you increase your money making skills, learn a life-ending skill.

Shooting, boxing, knife wielding, martial arts.

Evolve your ability to be lethal but choose not to use it.

It is better to be a warrior who lives in a garden.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Before leaving any place, pat all of your pockets thrice.

Spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch.

Spectacles for your glasses.

Testicles confirming your pants are zipped.

Wallet for anything of worth you came with.

Fix your posture. Walk high, chin up, firm handshakes.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

There are value systems that grounds you but at every stage in your life, stress test your belief systems.

The ideals and opinions you hold strongly, always challenge them fiercely - be the devil's advocate and see in what ways they might be wrong.

This is how you evolve.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Before you knock down another man's bread.

Remember that he's a man like you, he just had a different exposure to alternate life variables.

The janitor, gateman, driver, electrician is deserving as much respect as the CEO.

Treat every man with the respect they deserve.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Other men are not competition. They are either inspiration or sources of lessons.

Who don pass you don pass you. Envy is useless. Learn from them.

As you pattern your life like those who have walked your path, find those who have walked alternative paths and understudy them.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Comparison will always steal your joy.

It doesn't matter how behind you think you are, there are people behind you.

It doesn't matter how ahead you think are, there are people in front of you.

You need to balance contentment with ambition.

Calm down. Don't die.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

"Iron sharpeneth Iron" isn't a myth.

You are an average of all the men you surround yourself with.

Growing up, I had the penchant of spending time with older men - not because age is always synonymous to wisdom,

but their lived experiences pointed out mistakes to avoid.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Surround yourself with great men.

Because we are all at different levels, "great men" is relative.

Your core attribution tag for "great men" should be shared values & goals.

If you don't have those (yet), intentionally unlink from men who don't share similar values with you.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

This week marks International Men's Week 2026.

I started to put together this thread last week & this morning - I have all my thoughts together.

From one man to another,

From the core of my heart to yours,

From the recognition of my struggles to yours,

I share this:

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Greek mythology always leaves me pondering - it stuns me with the vivid pictures, then allows me to pick lessons.

So is the story of Antaeus. He was born of Poseidon and Gaia. Poseidon ruled over the seas, Gaia was the earth herself - the mother of Uranus.

Long before he was defeated by Heracles, Antaeus was always rumoured to be invincible. Stories recorded that Antaeus would wait at the entrance of Libya and force passersby to wrestle him - he always crushed them, piling their skulls so he could build a temple to his father, Poseidon.

This is where it gets interesting - he was only invincible as long as he maintained contact with Mother Earth. When Heracles eventually crushed him, Heracles did so by suspending him in the air, away from Mother Earth, crushing him in a bear hug.

In reflection, a lot of people have not been truly tested by the realities of the world because they have insulation. Insulation in systems, in parents, in their backgrounds. Just like Antaeus, the illusion of their strength is in contact with Gaia.

On the day Heracles decides to test your resolve, all it takes is for you to fall once, and if there is anything I know, it is the fact that a man who is used to standing and has never fallen will not be able to stand on the day he falls.

An extension of this conversation goes to parents who shield their children entirely from life's realities. You cannot apologise for having leverage in life, especially if your parents paved your way - but it is important to consistently stress-test how much of life you really can handle.

In the absence of the strength that grounds you, how do you survive?

[R(R) @real1800splurge]

somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through

[Maliq @MasterMaliq]

As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.

Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.

Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.

Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.

Why?

If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.

Truth does not need censorship.

If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.

You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.

The double standard needs to be called out.