Opinion : Happy Father's Day to all the High-Value Dads

This Sunday is Father's Day. If you have a good dad, you're blest. If not, your mother is apologizing for that.

This week I listened to a reaction video of a guy watching a pimp discuss what a high-value and low-value man is. Yes, my eyebrow was cocked through the whole thing in that "Huh? Did he REALLY just say that?" mode.

Ironically, the pimp was pretty on target when talking about his gender. For the record, he probably believes that he himself is a high-value man while being the lowest of the low.

His description of what he thought was a high-value man brought memories of my dad immediately to mind. He said that a high-value man is a protector. He would take a bullet for his woman and kids, and he would hurt anyone who hurt them. He said that every woman needs a man in her life of whom she can safely say, " If you hurt me, HE will hurt you!" and know that it's true.

Now my dad wouldn't hurt a flea, but he also wouldn't let anyone he loved be hurt. He wouldn't even let his nurse's aide in the care center that he was living in, get hurt. At the time he couldn't communicate, but when he saw that she was about to be hit by another man in his room, he stepped in between them and stopped the man from carrying out his plan.

That's what a high-value man is.

The pimp summed up the definition of a low-value man. He said that a low-value man is a man that does the opposite and hurts his woman and children. He puts himself above them.

He has the same definition of men who are locked in a prison. If you are a wife beater or child abuser and you go to prison, I've heard that you just went in with a target on your head. All of the other men will teach you your value, which is very low in their opinion.

The pimp defined bluntly that a man who will cheat on his woman, is the lowest of the low-value men. This man he said cannot be trusted.

I'm not sure if I like the idea that I agree with anything a pimp says but having been through that, I do.

He went on to talk about how he had gone to a family gathering where family members had gathered to honor his grandmother. In all, there were 77 people present. He didn't mention if there was a high-value man there or not in the grandfather position.

While being messed up in his occupation and believing that what he is doing somehow is not the lowest of the low, the guy still understands the value of a good man.

He understood that a good man never destroys his family, never does the unthinkable, and never intentionally hurts them. Only low-valued men do that. He will make mistakes, but he tries really, really hard not to, and succeeds most of the time.

A man who works hard, and takes care of everyone in his world is a good man. A good father looks into the future and tries to make a plan to provide for those he is responsible for, unselfishly.

To all of you kids, young and old that are fortunate to have one of these high-value dads in your life, give him a hug, and thank him for what he's done to preserve his status.

Happy Father's Day to all of you high-value men out there, the world needs more like you.