Steve Garrett shares how insecurity is just a mask, obscuring who we really are.
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Misogyny; burkha; acid; FGM; porn; rape; abuse; violence;…WHY?
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We men hurt who we hate.
We hate who we’re afraid of.
We’re afraid of who we don’t understand.
We don’t understand who we can’t empathise with.
We can’t empathise with those who reflect parts of ourselves we can’t accept.
We can’t accept the parts of ourselves that we’ve been taught to feel ashamed of.
We’re ashamed when we feel we’re not living up to what we think is ‘being a man’.
We can be free of shame when we realise that ‘being a man’ means being:
Photo by Kenoi Cabral
The chain of pain, so clearly expressed. Thank you! And discovering “who we are” free of all which we are not becomes, if I may borrow, “the final frontier”.