'Being man enough' ( Archived) (91)

For all the machismo of Latin America they still cry. All the earthier peoples of the world behave more like a Brit or American would do after 3 or 4 alcoholic beverages.

But then there's classical music. That's more emotional than first world man can be now, since the 1960s there would be very few who could understand classical music which is nothing to do with life being more manly. It's not.

It goes without saying that classical music is the most emotional thing man will ever do.

Which is why we can find nothing better than classical music to use on film and TV. We no longer produce a sound that would cover the rich tapestry of life for a reason. The arts were more creative, more soulful when the masculinity of the masses wasn't in question and I can't help but feel that heavy metal is trying to compensate for something. And to a lesser extent rap. The commercial cheeriness of effeminate consumer society has a type of passive rage beneath it.

The 1960s was that moment where new options met the old-fashioned ability to concentrate in a perfect union of choice and staying power which today has lead to a dangerous division between the man who uses long words and the man who can throw a punch. It should be the same man.

Like Popeye used to say............... " I am what I am."

I am not ashamed to admit that I cried when my Mom died, and even tho it has been 25 years since she passed away, my eyes still sometimes leak when I think of her.

Society tries to pigeon-hole us into different categories; and that just won't work because each person is their own individual. No one should live their life according to a perception of what is expected of them by others.

I have always pretty much done whatever I felt like doing, sometimes to the embarrassment of my younger Sister. On more than one occasion, she said " I don't know you " whenever I did some particularly crazy thing. Some of the things that I did do, are cause for dis-belief, but I had a lot of FUN doing it. My motto growing up was " don't say I won't do something, because I will do it just to make you a liar ."

But my picture has never been in the Post Office among those of " Most Wanted ", and most of the people who I went to High School still talk to me at our annual High School reunion. Little kids and puppies seem to like me, so I can't be too awful bad.

So, if I could offer a suggestion..........As you go thru life; show respect for Women, regardless of your personal opinion of the individual. Show respect for elders, even tho you are much more intelligent than they are. And treat everyone fairly...it would be a bummer to have your tombstone sledge-hammered by someone you screwed-over.

Life is short....live it to the fullest, but do it YOUR WAY.....and to hell with what others think.