Just some thoughts...

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Registered: 03-08-2007
Just some thoughts...
Thu, 03-08-2007 - 10:13pm

finding this board today has really started me thinking about a lot of things...this is a part of what i wrote today (i journal) and i don't know if thinking this way helps anyone at all, but the sort of "logical" approach sometimes helps me to pull myself out of a funk, treat this difficult time as a puzzle or something more philosophical...i dunno, i think too much maybe...but if anyone has thoughts in response to my questions, i'd love to hear those.

Message boards, my newest distraction. So many girls out there with the exact same story. I mean, the same guy, the same situations, the same feelings, the same everything. The sheer volume of the thoughts in my mind piecing out why, just why this is the case, is overwhelming. Are we all so stupid? Is it culture, are women being taught to need and crave outside gratification and fulfillment while men are being coddled and held captive in a perma-teenage state with videogames and toys and porn and all the instant gratfication one could want with credit card debt to their eyeballs. A whole generation of guys who hate their fathers and resent hard work and crave anything that feels good, and feels good now. The girls in the picture aren’t afforded the leeway to behave like this, we have further to fall, or rather, the glass ceilings will be reinforced with such behavior. The boys can get away with it…their careers won’t suffer. Where is the sense of self? Where is the pride? Where is the sense of responsibility? Of integrity? What is there left in this world if the sexes don’t have, respect, love, enjoy, take care of each other?