Mr. Softee

We are conditioned from a young age....when i say "we" I mean men. So many little things go on while we're young that subconsciously tell us "how to be a man." These phrases may look familiar to you......

"Why are you crying?"

"Stop acting like a girl"

"Man Up"

"Be a man"

We believe in all of these phrases, but we just never took the time to realize it. We lived our lives making sure we weren't on the receiving ends of these phrases. But I think it's time we cut all that baloney out and be realistic. We are men, but we are not impervious to emotion. I'm as much of a victim to believing these things as as anyone else but when you feel different emotions you can't continue to lie to your self.

When someone elicits or invokes emotions out of you it's for a reason. It doesn't necessarily they mean they have a control over you, but obviously good or bad they mean something to you. Let's recognize that we will have down days, we will have sad days just as we'll have happy days. It's not so much hard to show emotion as it is to show it when you think you shouldn't. But we're grown let's be real shit happens and you have to accept things as they come. Women naturally are more vulnerable people but we forget we can be from time to time as well. We as men get hit a lot, but here and there you do get hit where it hurts and you know how much emotion we show when we do. Let's be men and be the secure men we know we are. But let's also be secure in trying to let out our emotions, not like crazy but know it's okay to feel a sort of way sometimes...it's natural. I bet if you recognize this in your self you will not feel like, and no one will call you Mr. Softee.