“Women and Men, Are We Really That Different?”

Isn’t it amazing how women can have a whole conversation about what everyone had for dinner? Men don’t care about all the details, just give them the basics, that’s about all their attention span can handle. It’s just one of the many differences between women and men.

Women care so much about what everyone is wearing, their hair style, generally anything that has to do with a person’s appearance. A guy on the other hand doesn’t care so much how things look, only that it’s represented by their favorite team, or player.

Men seem to live for sports; men can talk sports for hours and hours. For some reason men are more passionate about their favorite sports teams than they are about most anything else in their lives. I think it has to do with the fact that they never achieved the greatness they hoped while they participated in sporting events, and they live vicariously through the professional athletes they never were. It’s a macho thing.

Women feel an incredible need to have the newest fashion trend and feel belittled without it. They can’t stand one of their friends having something they don’t. Women need multiple shoes, purses, and styles of jewelry. This is how a woman measures herself.

My mother was not at all like the women of today, she could care less what the styles were, or that her friend bought a new purse. She was all about the family. Making sure the family was taken care of was the most important thing in the world to her.

My father wasn’t like the men of today either; he didn’t care what was happening in the sports world. He was a worker, he only cared that his family had the necessities, and he did whatever he had to in order to ensure the families health and well-being.

The difference in values from their time to today is remarkable. It’s also remarkably sad. Why is it we care more about objects and games than for our families? While this might not exactly be true, it does seem our values are a little askew. What happened to cause the worth of family to be so taken for granted?

Can’t people see how society has deteriorated? Civilization is not progressing, it’s digressing. Parents are working longer hours just so they can buy a bunch of superficial, unnecessary items. This takes time away from the family; you can never buy more time. The fact that both parents have to work makes family life hard enough. Children need all the family time they can get; there are far too many bad influences out there in the world today.

Why are there so many divorces? I believe the fact that today’s economy necessitates both spouses working has a great affect on the marriage. Fights about money, taking care of the kids, and the fact that both spouses are stressed and tired from working all day definitely have a negative impact on family life. Both spouses feel trapped, desperate, trying to figure out some way to improve their situation. They feel like failures, that they are letting their family down, not providing the way they should. All these negative feelings gradually drive a wedge between them, they soon associate their spouse with these feelings and divorce becomes imminent.

Society needs to take a real long hard look at itself. Maybe if we cut out all the little extras we place so much value on, and concentrate on what really matters in our lives, we can evolve and have the life we deserve.