Man vs Male ?

Homo Sapiens, or the extant Human species, the self-proclaimed wisest species to make this planet its home. One very peculiar thing about the humans, they like to compare, compete with anything and everything. After establishing its superiority over rest of the species on the planet, they started a comparison among themselves based on the gender. Out of two, one was destined to lose.

Male, or a boy is given birth by a female, half the war is lost at this point only. Whatever he becomes in this lent life of his, he would always be beneath her. He might earn all the riches in the world, gain all the knowledge and still he can never be bigger, better than the lady, he will call mother his whole life. At some point in life when a male conflict with others, he would gather all the courage in world, to defend himself, even if he conflicts with his father, he may ready himself to lock horns with his father too. But against his mother, he never even stands a chance. All the courage, he can gather is useless in front of his mother. Whilst the most coward male, can draw tremendous courage if he has mother by his side.

While the first battle against the mother was completely one sided, the next battle he faces, is against his sister. A sister who would fight the world for him when she herself could tear him to pieces. The first friend he had and who will be by his side  through thick and thin. How could he afford to lose the first genuine friend, he ever had ? Every time he quarreled with her, whenever she is not around or she isn't talking to him, he was downhearted, wretched and sorrowful. Soon, he realized even this battle is not for him to win.

Losing all square within the family, he tried to be tough in society. His whole masculinity was shredded when his eyes encountered her. A friend with whom it was so easy for the tough guy like him to open up. He shared everything with her. It was her that compelled him to become better than his present self. For her, he learned the art of conversation. He would do anything for her attention, for her to talk to him. Her mere smile made him forget all the worldly possessions. Even when all the forces were against him, he fell for her and he fell hard. And he knew if she ever left, his world would be shattered. His heart will be broken and his entirety would cease to exist. And again a battle was lost.

During his lifetime, if he was lucky enough, he would get a chance to raise a female, a daughter. His Daughter. Among all the females he ever met, she would  be the most delicate one and yet he finds her happiness most powerful. He would even trade his life for her happiness and not think twice. First time when he held her in his arms, he knew his world is complete and for no reason his eyes were moist. He could feel her eyes peeping into his soul. As she grew, he was her first hero because a word against her and he would declare war against the world.

Finally, he realized a strange logic, only if all the battles were lost, then he can win the war. All the time, when he thought his war was against females, he was wrong. His war was against himself. Any battle won would have made him something other than what he was meant to be. But winning the war made him a HUMAN. He was born a male and only with the victory in this war, he became a MAN.

This article is dedicated to all the women in my life and all the MEN who have won their war. 

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