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In the culture box containing us, we're both given specific roles we're told to follow, spanning all manner of life's situations - including the rudimentary behaviour when boy meets girl. The earlier idea of a man planned for the grand splurge of emergence as a patriarchal figure, (big in self-importance if not in fact,) lacks real relevance in the world of today. But it played it's part in the macho expectations I've chased in vain, and cannot totally dismiss - risking disorientation from life's actual practice, with a loss of knowing where the path goes.      To lead the way I might not qualify,      since half of me still feels unfit to try.