A Thought For You
When I was young I could not cry when I saw a sad movie or read a sad story. That was not the manly thing to do, was my thought. The feelings of love in their fuller measure I did not know as yet. But now I have three children and a dear wife I treasure so. Now I can watch or read a sad story and receive the full benefit from it. I can cry when it’s sad, or laugh when it’s happy. Now I can appreciate all of life as a true man should. Not from a point of weakness, but from a point of love. The love of a husband, the love of a father for son, for a daughter, for a mother, for a father, for our country, and for our world. So all of you young boys or young men, if you perfer, who wish to know how to tell when you’ve become a man, I would say you are there when you can feel all emotions good and bad, happy or sad, and you’re not asshamed of these true feelings of life.
When a story, a song, or poem makes you cry, it does not have to mean it made you feel sad, nor does it have to mean it made you feel happy. Sometimes it only means that it made you feel, feel so much you simply over—flow.
A.L. Sh.ipman, Jr.
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