Friday, August 20, 2010

A man of certain things...

Can anyone define for me who or what makes a man? No single answer seems to answer that question. What we have infact, are a set of man-like habits. Men like sports. Men like to drive. Men like to drink and smoke. Men like to just laze around. Men like to hit the gym. Men like to talk business. Men like to walk business. Men like to love. Men like to lust. But these are just "instances" of how men can be. And no single "man' can fulfil all of these.

The point is, we are all none but men of our own choices. In one single lifetime one has to choose what (s)he would like to become. Certain constraints-cum- facilitators like home, family, friends, education, society, knowledge etc. are given while the rest of the others are decided by us by our very own choices.

So now I can answer two questions. Who am I? And who do I want to be?

And one question still lingering on unresolved in my mind is "And how do we define manhood?" I can only say, "Standing up for what all one believes in."