What defines a man? Is it brute strength, courage under fire in battle, scars from everyday life, or how many women he has been with or is it something else? Is it the way he lives his life, how he struggles with the things in life, love, sadness, misery, death, & loneliness or is it all these things? What happens when he puts his heart, his feelings out there for a woman who he thinks loves him only to find out the things that make him a man are not what she needed or wanted & how does he continue on with his life, when things he has to offer, well they don't seem to be the things that she wanted or needed & how does he deal with all of this? He can turn to the things that consume men, drugs, booze, sex & money, but these things only dull the things that make him a man, but after all these evil, demonic things, is he still a man? Or is he something else, is he a shell of his former self or something totally different, can he be called a man, or is he empty, a ghost, both here & gone, or is he dead? How can a man continue with life, when life, everything he wants or loves just seems to slip away from his grasp or is that what defines a man? The way he struggles with sadness, misery, love, joy& everything else in life, or does he just surrender to everything.Does he just drop his armour, his sword, his shield, his strength, & let his horse wonder away, or does he use his weapons to fight, knowing in the end, armour & sword will rust, strength will drain, & his horse will die. Does the old man look back on life, remembering the scars, the smell of battle, the friends that have died, the love that came & went or does he regret these things? Does he look in the mirror, white in hair & beard, scars jagged & old from life, sadness in his eyes & wonder if he wasted his life, knowing one last thought, was i a good man? Did i fight hard enough, did i love enough, did i live life enough? But after all these things, the main question is what defines a man?
