A whimsical view of Men vs. Women…
Here are some rambling thoughts on the difference between Men and Women. This is how I see it, after having grown up with two women, Mom and Debbie, worked with five or six women at a time and lived with one, two or three for most of my adult life. My Dad of course did his best to help me understand women but he too was ill prepared. All men seem to be clueless.
Well, in the beginning God created man. Apparently He realized that Adam needed help. So being the loving God that He is He created Eve. When man, Adam, saw Eve he thought, now here is flesh of my flesh, and my soul of my soul. He also saw that of all the creatures God had created she was the most Beautiful. Remember Adam and Eve were both naked, so right there you can imagine that for Adam that might have been the Genesis for wrong ideas. Eve on the other hand took her job very seriously. She was to be the ‘Helper.’ She could see right away the Adam needs a lot of help in many areas especially with himself. She became an eager helper. (Women do seem to be more, how shall I say it, more grown up.) Adam and Eve took very good care of the Garden. With Eve’s ‘suggestions’, doubtless, the plants and animals thrived. Everything was grand and paradisal. Perfect! Then one day wandering around the Garden, naked by the way, they happened on the ‘Tree of Life.’ You can only imagine what went on between Adam and Eve at that moment but needless to say there was “MISCOMMUNICATION.”
Adam blame Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. For sure, ever since understanding the other sex has been a mystery. Books have been written claiming to have the answer. Interestingly (I am told) women’s magazines are filled with articles about ‘how to understand your man’, how to communicate with men, etc. Women take their job as ‘helper’ very seriously. While men’s magazines have no such articles about how to get along with women but often are filled with photos of ‘beautiful creatures’ not necessarily naked but nearly so. So women are still trying to ‘help’ their men. While men seem to still have the wrong ideas. Are men just a large versions of boys?
I will share wise advise my Grandma, Flo, gave Jan and I nearly 50 years ago. She said, “Don’t try to change each other.” I guess she realized that you need sometimes to ‘let the mystery be.’ Men and women are different and meant to be. The trick is to ‘Live and Let Live’ and to Love the differences. For example just yesterday I spent the morning shooting sporting clays (not well by the way). Mean while Jan was shopping all morning. We had lunch then off she went for more shopping. I retreated to the garage to reload shotgun shells and listen to iTunes. I don’t understand the joy of shopping all day and I am certain Jan would not spend hours reloading shotgun shells. Later we had dinner together. Sometime I even fix dinner.
Thank God we are different!
DKS