Right, before I start, if anyone posts that damn mulan song, I'll go mental. That earworm's up there with ducktales...
Right, I was out last night, and quite drunk. I was walking home with my friends who were also drunk. I have an odd laugh that sometimes comes out at the end of my sentences. One of my friends brings up the fact that it'll stop me getting a girlfriend. I bring up the fact that being ugly and mentally odd to say the least, that's hardly the biggest problem. He says my biggest problem is that I don't try, I say I'm happier not trying, constant rejection is the only probable outcome, and it's one real good way to kill every bit of confidence I have spent so long building.
So, when we come to the part on the walk where I split off to go home, he says I have to jump over a little fence near the traffic lights, instead of taking the extra second to go around it. I try a little, but then I say sod it and go around. He starts complaining about how this makes me less of a man and somehow links into my lack of sexual success. It makes me less of a man to spend a while trying to get over a fence, than walking around it in less time. Drunk logic. Or at least I hope it was the drink talking.
But it does get me thinking, what makes a man, when have you truly grown a pair? And I'm not just talking manliness, I'm talking...well, having balls in the metaphorical sense, in the sense that even a girl can have balls, being ballsy. Okay, I've used that word too much now, but I don't really know how else to say it.
TL DR: What do you have to do to have "grown a pair?"
I think when you can stand in front of the world, and do what you want regardless of how long it'll take, how hard it will be, or how many people disapprove, that's when you've grown a pair.
Right, I was out last night, and quite drunk. I was walking home with my friends who were also drunk. I have an odd laugh that sometimes comes out at the end of my sentences. One of my friends brings up the fact that it'll stop me getting a girlfriend. I bring up the fact that being ugly and mentally odd to say the least, that's hardly the biggest problem. He says my biggest problem is that I don't try, I say I'm happier not trying, constant rejection is the only probable outcome, and it's one real good way to kill every bit of confidence I have spent so long building.
So, when we come to the part on the walk where I split off to go home, he says I have to jump over a little fence near the traffic lights, instead of taking the extra second to go around it. I try a little, but then I say sod it and go around. He starts complaining about how this makes me less of a man and somehow links into my lack of sexual success. It makes me less of a man to spend a while trying to get over a fence, than walking around it in less time. Drunk logic. Or at least I hope it was the drink talking.
But it does get me thinking, what makes a man, when have you truly grown a pair? And I'm not just talking manliness, I'm talking...well, having balls in the metaphorical sense, in the sense that even a girl can have balls, being ballsy. Okay, I've used that word too much now, but I don't really know how else to say it.
TL DR: What do you have to do to have "grown a pair?"
I think when you can stand in front of the world, and do what you want regardless of how long it'll take, how hard it will be, or how many people disapprove, that's when you've grown a pair.
) I'm at least trying, and I'd call that an indicator of adulthood. 
