When she breaks your heart, she feels nothing. She moves on quickly...like nothing happened. You feel as if a piece of you is missing. You can't eat, you can't sleep. All you do is think about her, wondering if she ever misses you. You're depressed for weeks, months, sometimes longer. But then you realize what's important in life and you decide you need to worry about yourself. You soon move on...and she's stuck watching you smile...and realizes she messed up...
She'll regret everything.
Men of my generation have been told through the years not to express their emotions. We are not to show our anger because it's either inappropriate or just plain scary. We aren't supposed to show sadness or mourn because that's a sign of weakness. We have been taught to suppress our emotions.
Over the last twenty years, our culture has been more acceptable of this. It's now okay for a guy to cry at a chick flick. It's more acceptable for a man to have a righteous anger, just don't go flying off the handle. It's okay for a man to lay his emotions out on a table.
I see that women have changed as well. They still continue to express their feelings well, but they have kept more of their emotions in check. My generation didn't have very many good female poker players, but there are a lot more top caliber poker players that are women now. Is it because they can hide their emotions better while still being able to read the emotions of men? Or is it because they are competing more in what was once a male dominated business world?
The opening quote was found on Facebook. The nouns and pronouns were actually male, but I changed them to female. If you would change it back to the original, the emotions expressed would be completely understandable. The funny thing is that it works this way as well. Both men and women would look at the changed statements and accept the emotions coming from a man.
Is it okay for a man to express himself this way or is this still a sign of weakness? Are men still supposed to keep emotions like this locked up and unsaid?
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