Pain, Exhaustion, and Being a Man

Two tropes of manhood in a day’s worth of discomfort.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
4 min readSep 5, 2021

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Photo by Road Trip with Raj on Unsplash

Yesterday, I was a wreck physically and mentally. I had put myself into an uncomfortable situation for a friend the day before, and while I was happy to help that friend, it had drained me of whatever energy I had left.

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.