Day 8 : Growing Up Sucks

We all knew a great many men. From books, and novels, and ballads, and movies, and documentaries, and songs, and poems. History is made up of great men and great deeds. Great men are the main characters and leads in all of the great stories we read/see. And every great man (or woman, to be politically accurate) has something in common. They are good. 

Every great hero in every great tale is basically good guy. A person, we are taught to look up to, and respect, and awe, and swoon over. He should be smart, and handsome ,and charming, and witty, and strong, and just. But then imagine a world where every man is a hero. Everywhere we go we see tall guys in impeccable suits and diction, saying all the right words and doing all the right deeds. What boring world it would be.

I suppose others apart from me also thought the same. That how James Cagney, and Tony Soprano, and Walter White, and Pran came into being. These were the anti-heroes, and we seem to be living in the era of bad guys. An era where in being an A-hole is cool. An era, if you are not a badass or be a prick towards every (weaker) person that comes your way, you are not considered a man. At least not a man worth a damn.

I've seen a lot of people now treat each other like dirt. Even total strangers. We are overtly hostile to one another. We are closed off. Hidden behind the high walls we build around ourselves. I don't see a lot many men hugging each other by the shoulders or punching each other’s heads together in glee. We have lost our ease of touch. 

I remember having that up until when I was in college. I was comfortable with myself and with people around myself. And when college ended, something changed. Don't exactly know what, but something did. I noticed the same with people around me as well. We lost something very precious that day. They say this was growing up. Sad.

If growing up really was shackling your comfort with the outside world. I really am officially fed of being a grown up then. The responsibilities and duties should not really be meant to chain our personality. I would suppose its job is to make us better men by teaching us to overcome the burdens of your ever complicating lives. To make us well equipped to fend for ourselves and for those we love. Growing up should not also come with you becoming a shitty person.

I liked the way I was. I imagine most people did as well. That guy should make a comeback in this story don't you think?

Today, I think he has a fair chance of doing just that.