Saturday, January 6, 2024

A Post to Reddit

 (M63) WTF?!! OP, what do you mean by a Broken man?

Are you talking about when a relationship/marriage has ended, and no one bothered to INFORM YOU. When he as the man in said relationship was cheated on, she abused his feelings...just cold outright right in his face didn't/don't give a flying f*ck about him...dumped/ended/kicked him to the curb, the relationship? She dumped all that on you right then and now, and as far as you were concerned everything was great. Or...

When society just teams up on you and beats you down... When everything that could go wrong, DOES go wrong, and a guy just can't get a freaking break? Totalled your car on the way to work, got pinked slipped when you did make it in 3 hours later. Go home and in the mail, you're being audited by The IRS. Meanwhile, it smells like shit...septic tank backed up and is overflowing not only on your lawn but your neighbors too. Just fucking great, Police showed up too because neighbors called in a complaint about your dodo tank ruining their prized front lawn. Are you talking about that type of sign of a Broken Man?

In both scenarios..there is only one response, just one response needed. 'Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.' Get some business cards made up with that saying. Hand them out as needed, then...
Then as a man, move the fuck forward.

Tool's, '46 & 2'...

'I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own chaotic And insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me, Feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and Cleansing I've endured within
My shadow Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me.'

I tried to find the interpretation of what those lyrics meant, and what they meant to me. This came damn close. Some guy posted this...

'Basically, it's about the point where your personality and your ego have been stripped down to nothing, which is a terrifying and depressing experience, but also a necessary precursor to rebirth and regeneration. all of your old bad habits and feelings and your entire sense of identity gets stripped away and you start to put yourself back together again.'

So.. When someone, anyone TRIES to do something intentionally to me to make me feel less than... Think they have control over the way THEY can make me feel like I'm your puppet? Motherfucker, I'm a rubberband...I snap BACK. I will walk away...And while I'm walking away I will ignore the fuck out of you. You don't exist. I've been this way since I was 18 years of age. I was taught and learned from The Best.