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Emotional Space - EP 28

Dennis GableOctober 9, 2018emotional space, dennis gable, self to soceity
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++ FAILURE & I ARE WELL ACQUAINTED ++ . . Once upon a time I was the boy/man who wouldn’t dare look adversity in the face. I’ll never forget what he looked like. Dark brown eyes. Thin, stringy hair that hung past his shoulders. A scraggly beard that first started to gray in chin. He was stocky & intimidating, even as I grew taller & looked down at him. . . Adversity promised me that he would kill me if I ever turned my back on him. If I ever challenged his authority. If I ever took away his power, he’d take my life. For years I was silenced, unaware of the power contained within my voice. Forced to whisper & too weak to do anything about it. . . And then one day I heard the depth in my voice; I finally allowed myself to SCREAM. Adversity shrieked in terror at the sound of MY VOICE. He knew he has lost battle to keep me silent & it was that moment where adversity fled & resilience filled the void. . . Even today, as I face failure, I stand tall, full of life & I allow my voice to echo through generations before & generations to come. 🧔🏻👊🏼 #selftosociety #adversity #resilient #useyourvoice #slaythedragon #presson
SILENCE IS NOT MY STRONG SUIT. (& this post is long) . . Of course I’ve done shit I’m not proud of, shit that would prefer I stay silent so it can stay hidden. To protect my ego & allow shame an empty dance floor to parade itself on. Well...fuck ego & fuck shame. . . Every boss has thought about getting laid by his new, hot employee - Every pastor has had at least a fleeting thought about a woman in his congregation - Every dude wonders what it would be like to fuck their “hot” girl-friend - Every good man has moments where he isn’t so good. Any man who’s character is worth a fuck knows he’s one drink, one wink, one weird shift in the universe away from doing some shit he’ll regret for the rest of his life. . . My turn… I have gone drink for drink with a woman knowing that I can out drink her and would possibly have an opportunity to get “what I wanted”. I have heard “no”, and slowed down just enough to manipulate that no into an orgasm. I have gotten myself drunk to the point that if the shit I did became public I could play the “shit, I don’t remember” card. I have treated women like total dog shit, as if their only purpose on this earth was to make me cum. . . Fuck ego & fuck shame. . . If you’re a dude who has read this far, you’ve likely pushed past your own guilt & shame & let me be the first to tell you, YOUR VOICE OF ALLEGIANCE IS VALID AS FUCK! . . We may not be able to fix the fucked up shit we’ve done, but we can use our voice/posture/ to take up the space where selfish men are trying to be. Men, we have to re-write this narrative.
WE LIVE IN A WEIRD WORLD. What was is dying off, while what will be is dangerously smart & naive. Then there’s us. We are what is. This is our world...and we can do better. ✊🏼 . . WE CAN BE: More compassionate. More authentic. More understanding. More aware. More patient. More balanced. . . The above does not take skill or resources. You do not need to be educated or affluent to get MORE OF THINGS THAT MATTER. . . There is only one hurdle in our way as we pursue a better existence for ourselves & the humans around us, self-naivety, which is simply us not being honest with ourselves first. . . Evaluate yourself honestly. Correct yourself gracefully. ✌🏼
THIS SHIT IS OUT OF FUCKING CONTROL! . . As a boy I was exposed to a fuck load of sexuality & “norms” that I had nothing to compare them to. When I was 10 my dad related eating pussy to eating a Jack in the Box taco. . . I was raised with something called the 5-F’s: Find em. Feel em. Finger em. Fuck em. Forget em. . . I’ve been looking at naked women in print/video since I was about 7 years old. As a matter of fact I was pooping in my parents bathroom as a kid & my dad had a Playboy on the tank of the toilet & I flipped through it like any curious boy would. My dad gave me my first Playboy video at 13… . . Seeing women as objects designed for my sexual pleasure is something I was raised with & groomed to believe!! TRUST ME I under-fucking-stand what happens in the lives of young men that make them see women as an orgasm rather than a human. . . My behavior hasn’t been 100% pure or flawless throughout my life, I wouldn’t pretend it has…but even knowing the details of my own experiences THIS is something I’ll continue to speak up about & against. . . Men…you can do better. If you’re so horny that you think of drugging, persuading a woman to drink too much, disregarding NO in the midst of what STARTED as a consensual situation, or raping woman PLEASE reach out to someone you trust. If you’ve ever been guilty of this, I know the guilt still eats at you…no matter how long ago it was. . . And for fuck sake…stop sending dick pics already.
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