TO: Mary Jackson
RE: Okay
Having read Prager’s article-as cited/linked by you-allow me to say this.
I don’t think Prager properly appreciates the situation.
I THINK, and this has not been properly researched by anyone I’m aware of, that women are naturally more likely to be ‘clinically depressed’ than men.
Why?
Are you ready?
Hang on to your seats….
…because the Bible says it’s so.
Check out Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
It’s the curse!
Woman’s desire is played out, daily, before our very eyes on every form of media you can connect to; Cosmo, the movies, MTV, Fox News, People, etc., etc., etc…….
And they, women in general, fall for it.
They, i.e., such women, can never be as good as THEY are. They chase a phantasm. And their whole life can be built-up/crashed, around this form of ‘paper chase’.
There’s a quote I like to throw out for men in similar sorts of situations.
You’ve heard the term ‘Mid-Life Crisis’. I see it as the male equivalent to what women go through after they reach their mid-30s. [Note: Check that great comedy movie Soapdish, where Robert Downy, Jr. is explaining the theory of the new twist in the show to the gossip columnist.]
Men can do the same thing, as women, as described as the ‘clinically depressed’ by Prager, do.
Men, however, have an out….younger women. Women can do the same thing. But apparently fewer do.
So, back to my favorite tag line for this sort of think-from the masculine perspective…..
You won’t have a mid-life crisis, if you had a life in the first place.
That’s from 27 years in the infantry; starting as a private and getting out as a lieutenant colonel.
Maybe I just didn’t have time to suffer from an adverse mixture of angst and ennui. But there it is…..
Okay….
…..dinner is over. The shortbread for the first-of-the-year-and-exceedingly-delicious strawberries is about done.
Time for some cognac and a movie….with my Proverbs 31 woman.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The challenge is NEVER to be better than someone else. It is really to be better than yourself.]
