I should introduce myself as a rapid cycling bi polar consumer; by consumer I use mental health services and resources. Well the other few weeks I was in a mixed state of depression and being a male in my fifties I find that the older I get the more emotional I get. Seeing the Giants win the MLB World Series brought tears to my eyes as does seeing the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup after all those years without a win. I don't really know if this is a part of being bi polar or just being an emotional guy, but I cry when I see beautiful things like nature and happy faces, but also when people are crying too. I know some of you may think of me as a sap and it could possibly be but on the other hand, maybe being emotion is feeling a tender side that is in all of us.
My father was a first war veteran and he always told me not to cry it was unmanly, but on one occasion when I was very young he took me to his battalion reunion. The room was not filled with the young men that he had remembered, but old crippled men in wheelchairs. Father couldn't take much more so he took me outside with tears in his eyes and told me that they were not the comrades that a went to war with.
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