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Risks and men...

  • 24-08-2009 12:30am
    #1
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭


    In everyday we have to take them weather its overtaking a car, taking on a job in work you may not be able to do, Risking it all for the satisfaction..
    In todays society we don't see it, when i was 7 we did'nt have soft landing's like we do to day we hurt are selves's we had cuts broken teath... etc...
    But I'm noticing now a days (pre ression) men especially tock less risks
    in life we got used to being in are little precious bubble of safety...

    I take risks in anything I normally do I don't really fear it, what i fear is the
    2 hrs later "of what if"

    that there can be put into, chatting up a woman who is giving you an eyeful and half to i dunno on the foot ball field moving 2 seconds quicker, then you did you could of scored a goal or maybe in a computer game...

    But its got me thinking, I've never regretted the risks I've taken only the one's I haven't or chickened out of it....

    Im just wondering as a man young man or even a teenager.
    Do you see that young men don't understand there limits because They've been molly coddled so much and over protected..

    Haven't actually com in to young man hood with the necessary experience's of what previous generations have?


Comments

  • #2
    Rybka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Rybka


    I reckon you have been on the Captain Morgan.

    But I do agree - men now are becoming less manly.

    A man now is the guy who beats someone up in the street to the adoaration of his friends, a man in the past would be the guy who went to defend the victim.


  • #3
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I don't think so.

    In times past a man was a guy who went out at dawn during the summer cutting turf before work to earn money to pay for his kids secondary school education before free secondary school education. Or worked on the buildings in England lived in a bedsit and sent his wages home.

    I think thats what men did.

    Nowdays they do crap jobs they don't like to raise families- but hey its recession time.


  • #4
    Lothaar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭Lothaar


    Rybka wrote: »
    A man now is the guy who beats someone up in the street to the adoaration of his friends

    No, that would be a scumbag. I've never heard anyone refer to this as 'manly'.

    In times past a man was a guy who went out at dawn during the summer cutting turf before work to earn money to pay for his kids secondary school education before free secondary school education. Or worked on the buildings in England lived in a bedsit and sent his wages home.

    I think thats what men did.

    Nowdays they do crap jobs they don't like to raise families- but hey its recession time.

    Exactly.


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