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Boy versus Man Masculinity

A fully mature man should be able to access and integrate all the archetypes of the boy and man masculinity necessarily. Proper nurturing of the boy by a present and mature masculine man is needed to guide his transformation into a mature man. Let’s look into it:

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LOVE to VIOLENCE:

In the introduction (previous post: ‘LOVE and VIOLENCE’), I set up the background for the subject in question. Again, can love and violence coexist? We’ll now try to experience it through a story. The illustration below is not my story, however, it’s the combined story of two women but I’m sure of many more. 1

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LOVE and VIOLENCE: From passion to pain

The Introduction Boy meets girl; They get attracted to each other, they get closer, feel passionately in love; they are happy… they become part of the domestic violence (DV) or what is nowadays called intimate partner violence (IPV), scary statistics. What comes to mind when you hear violence mentioned in the context of love? I

Gratitude/Ingratitude

What are you grateful or ungrateful for? Well…grateful for completing a revolution round the sun🤭 Being grateful; simply meaning thankfulness. Some may believe that gratitude is a state of being (inside), and I would need more education on how that would be; I say gratitude must be accompanied with action and the first action would

Open letter to Mr. Gentleman

August is my month of gratitude. This post is inspired by a very real gentleman and it’s dedicated to any gentleman out there. The word gentle has it’s roots in the Latin gentilis simply meaning belonging to the same clan, race etc., so in this sense all men are gentlemen’ somehow. The term obviously evolved

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Solution to Nihilism

Love is: Lessons from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The book was written at a time when nihilism was on the rise in replacement of religion in Russia. The protagonist, Raskolnikov is very much a nihilist and there are many lessons to be learned from this character. I however, want to attempt to answer

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What if I died yesterday?

It’s a strange question to ask and answer while in the realm of the living, right? Story time! Yesterday night my life passed through my eyes for a second. It was around 10pm, not dark as the road is very well lit, and there was a light drizzle. I had alighted a bus and decided

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