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Maybe they'd have to hold each other when it rose, all organe and full and close. Maybe that's where our romantic notions about the moon first came from. Two people holding each other to keep their hearts from breaking, because everybody they knew was dying in the cold rocks and dust piles a quarter million miles away...
The Brothers K
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tirsdag, november 23, 2004
<warning: women's rant> Guys might find this a little too detailed, but it'll give you a glimpse of what it's like to be a woman. And seriously, this is stuff you all will probably want to know one day, especially if you're planning on marrying a woman. Bear with me :) </warning>
So, once you've had a regular period for a long enough time, you start to notice little things about your cycles. I personally am fascinated by all this stuff, and if I were ever to have a early-life crisis and begin to study medicine or biology, I'd totally focus on women's health issues. To some extent, men can understand the being driven by hormones bit, but it's really not as dramatic with them. For guys, it's one, steady, driving focus: Sex. It's that simple - by and large they don't care what they eat, don't get emotional at sad commercials, don't worry about when the best time to schedule your christmas shopping is. Their hormones and thus their brains are consumed by thoughts about sex. (Sorry for the bland generalization, gentle readers. It makes my point more obvious.)
On the other hand, a woman's life is a roller coaster. On a monthly basis, there are highs and lows, and they can be slow and gradual drops or sudden and death-defying cliffs. Sometimes there's a straight and level path, and sometimes there's looping and curves and even upside-down barrel rolls. Furthermore, sometimes the hormones are sex-focused, other times any little thing will make you livid with anger (anything from your gloves being in your shoes instead of your coat pocket to stupid cashiers). While there are subtle variations from month to month, there's often patterns that seem to emerge - i.e., 25% of the way through the coaster, there needs to be a barrel roll, or a flat tracks should appear in the first 1% of the journey. What the cause of such variations is is totally unpredictable. Sorry, guys, can't help you there. But what's most interesting is that you can use this pattern recognition stuff to predict your cycles. This may sound totally nerdy and I'm sorry in advance, but it'd be like applying a naive bayes' classifier to your symptoms and then using those probabilities to decide when your next period will start. I think that's uber cool. :)
So, concrete example? For about the five days preceeding the start of my period, I get ravenously hungry. I eat HUGE meals, multiple times a day. Then, as soon as it starts, I am no longer hungry. I don't eat much of anything, or I prefer to munch a little for meals. Totally inexplicable, but there it is.
You want more? If things are stressing me out, around two-thirds of the way through I'll have a major breakdown. For whatever reason, something will set me off and I'll either get furiously angry at someone for no reason, or I'll spend the day wallowing in self-pity and self-doubt. However, said breakdown can be avoided if the circumstances are correct - it'll just be a minor low day or tired day.
There's tons more stuff like this - I could probably create a proto-coaster with all the typical highs & lows mapped out, with typical triggers and everything. I would love to know what other women notice about their patterns, too. I wonder if we can make a generalized one, or whether it's totally different for each woman. And yes, guys, it does suck to frequently be governed by hormonal imbalances. But, it's also fun because you get to have all of life's highs and all of its lows :)
Moral of the story, boys? No matter what time of month it is, chocolate will make it better. :)
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