Yesterday Happy Father’s Day messages were all over social media. One directly sent to me caught my attention and got me thinking about fatherhood. After reading this message, I wondered what the sender had in mind. I came to the conclusion that probably he wanted to highlight that fatherhood is a doing word. In thisContinue reading “Father is a Doing Word”
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“Boys Don’t Cry,”: Demythologising Emotional Expression in Childlessness
Such moments become truly horrendous situations where tears are shed in fear-moulded crevices and pride-cased cocoons. When this foreboding fort of fear fails to fall, the secretive mourning is perpetuated & the inner rant is furiously seething, there will be emotional implosions and explosions.
Wake Up, Walk Tall and Win Strong: Thriving When the Answer is a “No!”
In my culture when one dies childless, he or she is buried together with a rat. This is a sign that the person never contributed biologically to the society. This kind of thinking neglects other achievements that this person will have done. Ironically, in the same culture, people who die having robbed the world of visions, people whose ideas never saw the light of day and whose great dreams were never born are eulogized as heroes.
Shunem Care 