I am just human after all. I mean, how the heck will I know what’s going on if you don’t tell me? Dammit. Do I look like I can read your mind? What am I psychic? Sometimes I really wonder what’s eating you. I mean, you act all moody and ‘long face’ and stormy and all that but when I politely ask what’s wrong, you pretend that everything’s rosy and hunky dory.
Look here. I’ve known you more than ten years already, almost 12 years to be exact, and though there are still things about you I don’t quite get, I know when something’s bothering you. How the heck do you think I feel if you’re in such a blardy PMS-ing mood and won’t tell me what’s going on? How do I know if it’s:
1. your heart problem bothering you again
2. your parents bothering you again
3. your work bothering you again
4. I did something to bother you again
5. your complicated thought processes bothering you again
6. worries about our finances bothering you again (although we are not exactly on the verge of bankruptcy or anything like that)
For numbers 4 & 6, I may be able to help find a solution, like try not to bother you again and bring out the calculator to show you that we are far from bankrupt. For the others, it is entirely up to you and how you face it. Doesn’t it occur to you that sharing some of that burden with me may help a bit? Why keep it all bottled up? It makes you moody and in a terrible mood to the point of you being stern even with the baby! And the pre-schooler get shouted at simply because you are in a bad mood. So, if you think you are being all macho and everything in trying to handle your problems yourself, then you are wrong. You are in the end causing the rest of us to suffer. The children gets shouted at, I get ‘cold-shouldered’ at, we are all unhappy and upset. All because you are in a bad mood over some unknown reasons.
Sigh.
If it’s me, then tell me. If it’s something else, tell me too. At least I won’t feel like I have to walk around eggshells.
To all the men out there. Acting all macho by keeping your problems to yourself is NOT macho. It only upsets everyone around you. Remember, nobody can read your mind and know what problems you have if you don’t say it out loud.
Oh, er, sorry folks. I just need to rant a bit.
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Share it with others
The best with loved ones
Don’t try to solve
By yourself all the times
You can’t find the way
Your mind working it up
You traffic-jam it………
It’s always at yellow
You don’t see the green
Flickering for you to go
You are stucked in yellow
One of the methods
Write it down on paper
Study it what can be done
In the long run
Talk talk talk
To people you are close
Life many problems
It is how one shared with it
Bottling it up is a loser
Caravanserai: if only more people think like that….