Masculinity is a reaction. It is, more often than not, a calloused scar that grows over years of wounding.
Madness string 2822
How am I here, I could wonder. How am I in this moment now? Except I never wasn't, not really. I was always here. I could always come here. The moment belongs to us forever. A memory, a dream, a fragment, we carry it with us regardless of whether we believe it or not. It's happening now. It is ours, and ours alone.