Femininity Is Like A Flower

It’s Delicate and Needs to be Treated with Gentleness And Care

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Yesterday I watched a Lewis Howes reel that talked about why women have lost their femininity.

And the answer given was that men have lost their femininity and so the women have had to compensate for it by going in the opposite direction and increasing their masculinity.

This struck me as something true and profound. Something I’d never thought of before.

So I shared it on my Facebook page and somebody asked me to explain what was being discussed.

I tried to explain this as best as I could and learnt many things from that discussion.

But that also set me thinking about this phenomenon.

Growing up the way I did, I was always trying to compensate for the absence or lack in my femininity by trying to boost my masculinity.

The people I met in school, at work and in my life at large, bearing just a handful, were unable to draw out my femininity within me.

And those that did were those who had moved closer and saw the girl/woman in me.

But by and large, I have had to stand up for myself and not allow the patriarchal society to submerge me and drown me with their expectations of how I should be.

Due to this kind of conditioning, I had never been able to feel or enjoy music in my life.

Music that flowed gently and touched the soul was off the limits in my life. I couldn’t reach it and allow it to move me. I used to call myself blind to music. Even until yesterday.

But I recently met somebody who brought out that femininity within me again.

Not for very long.

Only very briefly. But that brief encounter made me get back in touch with my femininity again.

As I would like to be.

And it also made me start listening to melodious music with appreciation and a degree of joy, warmth and delight.

It made me feel like a flower that had been crushed all my life but was given a new life, a new breath, a new ability to bloom once more.

And that feeling for me is priceless.

Do men understand this?

I wish they would!

At our very core, women want to be seen like flowers: loved, tended to, protected, nurtured and cherished!

There is no need to be jealous of them and treat them like a whack a mole!

You can get a lot more returns if you treat them as they are meant to be treated.

Think about this.

Peace ✌🏽

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