I don’t trust society anymore. I can’t delude myself into thinking the people around me know what’s best for me, themselves, or anything at all for that matter.

 

The men I’ve met are seriously lacking in emotional awareness and empathy. I’m realizing that for many people their baseline is just reacting to one stimulus after another.

The few men I’ve met that have become aware of mental and emotional health usually can hold a pretty decent conversation about it but lack in real-time application of these formulating principles and ideas.

 

I do not trust or look forward to them anymore. There have been too many strifes to my bellowing heart. 

 

I have tried leaning back, as far as I could away from the process and let all unfold as it does. Regardless of how much I push or pull– I have often landed in the same place…

 

The same dead ends off the edges of way-off highways and things I didn’t really want or need but I got so close to something I couldn’t really see beyond it.

 

This society now is foolish and reactive– and maybe it always was but now the way that things are and how we have been conditioned has pushed us this far.

 

Unaware and unempathetic. Or overly aware, empathetic and exhausted.

 

I do find that people struggle most with balance in their lives, and see now how all of society swings from one teetering edge to another.

 

But the reality is, I can’t trust these hallowed halls of nothing and shallow chutes and ladders in every direction for a second longer.

 

I so much more enjoy my own time.

 

My own passions, pursuits, goals, dreams and all the things that come to mind and help me unwind down and away from all the striving in the world.

 

Because even if you do the most of it– it will always ask more of you. It will forget your birthdays, but it might keep your roof on your head. It will devour your time and when you’re left on your own you might be confused to no end.

 

There are not many deeply emotionally aware people out there.