The Way a Man Becomes a Man

It is through blows that a man becomes a man.

From a young age, a man becomes acquainted with the word "responsibility."

Though he laughs it off in front of everyone when his lover marries because he couldn't establish himself, only the man himself knows what gets buried deep in his chest.

A man's lover falls into the web of betrayal, hand in hand with some boy who is relatively more successful.

Even while managing office pressure, it is the man who scrambles for answers to "Why are you so quiet?" amidst domestic unrest.

Those who wouldn't hesitate to declare themselves dead if they had no money in their pockets—perhaps they are the ones who are truly men.

The one who keeps offering his shoulder for others to rest their heads, until one day, exhausted, he finds no place to lay his own head and stares up at the sky—he is the man.

During Eid and Pujo, on Pohela Boishakh, after buying this and that for everyone else, the man who doesn't even have money left to buy himself a towel—how many such men we see around us!

I speak of those who, when their hearts break, are not even given the chance to cry. Because... men never cry!