Man Up

लड़के हो तुम, कमजोर नहीं।
तुम रो नहीं सकते, और नाही तुम रोओगे।
लड़के मजबूत होते है, भावनाओ से बर्बाद नहीं होते।
लड़के मजबूत थे, है,और रहेंगे।

He was just a kid when he was told to Man up, told not to cry because men don’t cry. Forced to watch his mum get beaten ,forced to bottle up his emotions, and not to confide in anyone because those who share are weak, all of this for what reason ?Only one reason ! To become a man.

His dad never cried ,so neither should he -was what he was told, but now, when the world says that it’s fine to cry, to feel vulnerable, to share ,what should he do?
Spending 18 years bottling up his feelings, his darkest memories and fears, he does not know how to let go. He saw the MAN drink and smoke ,beat people to let go…only to let go. What was he supposed to do now ?

Toxic masculinity, ego ,addiction – the reason for one’s down fall or a man’s downfall, he had seen all of this I his father. He begged for someone to teach him to cry, teach him to protect, to make him a Real man ,a normal human. No matter what all he did not know, he knew one thing for sure –
This society was absolutely brainwashed to the core. It not only prohibited a woman from getting the freedom she deserved but also prohibited a man to be himself. It forced him to man up, when he was not ready to. He now wondered if there was something wrong in his head,in his bones, in his blood or was the society just another hell,prison!

-Sia Savla