The objective of International Men's Day
The main objective of International Men's Day is to celebrate men’s positive contributions to the society. The day is to promote positive male role models and to focus on men’s health and well-being. This day also highlights discrimination that the men faces and how to improve gender relations along with promoting gender equality across the globe. This day also reminds us to create a safe and better world for the other half of the human population. The broader and ultimate aim of the event is to promote basic humanitarian values.
This year's theme
This year's theme for International Men’s Day 2019 is 'Making a Difference for Men and Boys'. It focuses on the need to value men and boys and to help people who make practical improvements in the health and well-being of men and boys globally.
Recently, as part of the lead-up to International Men's Day, Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana delivered a powerful spoken word piece on 'What makes a true gentleman?' In his 3 minute and 50 seconds-long video, Khurrana expounds on what it means to be a gentleman in this day and age. Watch here the International Men's Day poem, written by Gaurav Solanki and performed by Ayushmann Khurrana.
Meanwhile, let us take this moment to go out and wish the special men in our lives who treat you with nothing but respect. Here's a list of inspirational quotes that you can share with your male counterparts.
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him”.
-Buddha
"Ill-health of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"
-Thomas Carlyle
"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."
-Joan Welsh
"Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue."
-Congressman Bill Richardson.
“Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it’s essential to your survival and your well-being.”
-Renee Peterson Trudeau
“Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man”.
-Robert Baden-Powell