INTRIGUING CREATURES

Women are God's most intriguing creatures. They are strong and yet fragile, beautiful and yet tough, the best of humanity and yet, sometimes, its worst. After all, what can be worst than a mother killing her own children? At the same time, what is better and more noble than the love most mothers have for all children, not just their own?
Women will always remain an unsolvable mystery to men. Much as quantum physics, they simply are beyond our comprehension. We can study them, watch them, listen to them, learn from them and yet we truly never will know them.
Which is why, I think, many women feel unfulfilled and lonely in their lives. Because not only do the men in their lives not understand them, those same men don't even try. Because we men, unfortunately, usually give up early in life even trying to grasp the meaning and purpose behind all manner of mysteries placed before us -- God, religion, science, the universe, the designated hitter, the knuckleball and, of course, women -- simply because they are beyond our feeble minds.
Worse yet, we tend to lump all women into that "unknowable" category, thereby cutting ourselves off from those whom we love as well as those we simply encounter in the world. And yet if we simply relaxed, listened and talked to the woman we love we might discover a level of understanding and comprehension heretofore unheard of in male-female relationships. We will never truly know her, but we can know and understand her better with each passing day, if we only are open to the experience.
Of course, most of us are at the point now where, after years of neglect, we'd have to convince the woman we love that we are seriously interested in her and want to know her better in order to get her to open up to us. If we can convince her to share her heart, soul and mind with us, however, we are in for incredible enlightenment.
Not that we have any hope of truly understanding everything that makes a woman, well, a woman. Not even the greatest male minds  -- Aristotle, Plato, Kafka, Einstein, Woody Allen -- have been able to grasp that ultimate mystery. But they, at least, welcomed the challenge.
Are you up to it?