They say life is a stage. It is like a stage play or role play shown in movies. We are all actors on the stage of the movie of life. We go in at a certain time, we play our different roles and we go out when the light is off. This is life and living for all of us. In the movie and the game of life, we meet different types of men at all times. The kind of men you meet and mingle with decides the kind of life you live or how well you live your life on earth. We are going to see different types of men that we can meet in this journey of life. The list of types of men we meet as compiled in this article is not exhaustive, but it will largely capture the different types of men we meet as we run the race of life.
(a) Those who add value to our lives: Some men we know add value to our lives. They are men of good virtues, good upbringing at home and very disciplined people. When you come into contact with those people, your life sees the light and you automatically add value to your life and living makes sense to you. They are the kind of men who make you realize your dreams in a positive way without getting your hands dirty or delving into immorality and bad lifestyle.
(b) Those who remain in your life: This group of men is not ready for and will never add anything good to your life. They are parasitic and chronic as well. You find them around you because they believe there is something they will get from you. They’re the “What do you have for us?” type of friends. You are their friends because you are always there for them when the need arises. Once you are not ready and in a position to help them in anything you end your relationship with them.
(c) Those who leave you as they find you: This group is another type of men who are in this race of life. They come into your life, they play with you, they move with you and they do not subtract or add anything good or bad to your life. They are there just for the sake of being there. They have no impact on your life when they are there or not, it makes no difference.
(d) Those who waste you: This group is almost like those who remain from your life, but the difference here is that their impact on your life is deadlier than those who remain from your life. They are known for wasting their time, their resources, their talent, their skills, their competencies, their abilities, and their person as well. These types of men do not come into your life with good intentions. From the beginning, they have decided that they are going to enter your life to reduce you to nothing and until they realize that they will not leave.
(e) Those who really love you: Here we find men who love you with all their hearts. They know you, they like you, they like your type of person, they like the type of work you do, and they like everything about you. These types of men will do anything to make you successful in life. They are happy when you are happy, sad when you are sad, rejoice when you do, and take you deep into their hearts. They are your true friends. You may not meet these types of men when things are going well for you. There are some of your friends today that you may think are in this group, but try to fake hard times and hard times and see how many real friends you actually have.
(f) Those who love what you have and not you: This is another group of men we meet in our lives. This group loves you for what they see around you. They love you for your possessions, your skills, your intelligence, etc. These qualities are what attract them to you and not your personality. They love you for what you have, for who you are and not for who you are. These types of men leave you when they can’t find the things that attracted them to you in the first place.
(g) Those who exploit you: Like those who take away from you and those who squander you and your resources, this group is either your friend or attached to you because they want to exploit you.
(h) Those who bless you: This includes those who become a blessing to you once they come into your life. Your association or relationship with them leads you to be hurt. People in this group include spiritual friends who pray for you in their quiet time. The ones that protect your interest even when you are not there. Their pastors also fall into this group. They are always blessing you and praying for your good and interceding for you, even when you are not with them. Apart from prayers, men in this group can bless you with their finances, their good will and material things.
(i) Those who kill you: These types of men are the ones who come into your life and kill you. Some men can waste your life, exploit you and take you away, but they still leave you alive. But these men have the sole objective of destroying you and leaving you dead. When one intentionally shuts off your source of sustenance he has already killed you, if he gets away with it with a gun he will shoot you to death. Some go to great lengths to hire assassins to kill you if they can’t do it themselves. This is true and such is life.
(j) Those who separate you from God, from your destiny, from your dreams and from the desires of your life: This last group of men are to destroy you. They will do everything they can to take you away from your divine purpose in life by taking you away from your creator. They make you give up your goals in life. They hold you back and discourage you from following your dreams and the desires of your heart.