Prefering to react than to initiate. Always instinctively cautious. Always observing and studying instead or approaching and engaging first. Knowing when to hammer the iron when it is hot, and when the need for action and words is required at it's most urgent time. The hallmarks of the "Prudent" man.
Men like them, are usually aware of their own shortcomings, flaws and limitations. They may also be more emotionally honest with their own feelings, though they may not choose to talk or confide openly about it. If they do ever experience an event that leaves behind an exceptional, strong, almost uncontrollable degree of emotions inside them, chances are is that they would spend their resources of inner willpower, reasoning capabilities to temper down their feelings to control them.
One important fact to note, is that men who are supposedly "Prudent" may not be who they currently are by choice. Various circumstances in their personal lives may have forced or unnoticeably nutured them to adapt a persona of the "Prudent" man. They might have experienced: fierce opposition from their peers, emotional ostracization from their loved ones, disapproval from their colleagues, the trauma of having to adapt to difficult circumstances, the list goes on. A very personal quote that I remember all too fondly, partially summarizes the point in this paragraph: Creative genius is often a result of complete misery.
Based on the previous paragraph, our "Prudent" personality could be described as a filter, a firewall, or a fortress if you could visualize it. It is the very tool that helps us weather through the bullshit, trials, limitations and trashy individuals that life has to offer us. It can't be helped if you feel that we are too defensive or passive for our own good, but we naturally have to protect our own lives and sanity.
We wouldn't do the world much justice if we let our guard down and not be firm in our resolve to provide for ourselves first, there will be a time and place in many different moments in our lives that we take a break and let others see who we really are, and hopefully they will come to understand why we always put up a mask for everyone to see. And when we do let our guard down, and if you do see something in ourselves that you don't like, be gentle. Or keep quiet about our flaws. Or leave. We may have too much on our hands to deal with ourselves.
The world is never simple. It is increasingly volatile with each single passing moment. When it comes to social contact, the "Prudent" man knows, that the people around him, do have their own agendas, their own yardstick to judge others by, their own dreams and aspirations, and their desires. Nothing is for sure in a ever changing world, and that is why the "Prudent" man stays silent.
He merely wants to make sense of it all, and prepare to react, and act in a truly prudent way.
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