We work all day and we’re stressed. With all the hustle of an over-flowing workweek, we’re still struggling to help provide for our families. We often lose track of the work/life balance we’ve been striving to maintain. What we need is a safe space to clear our heads: a place and some time to kick back and enjoy the fruits of our labour. This need helped give birth to the Man Cave.
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Since the dawn of the century, our grandfathers (and other great men who were smart enough to utilize an extra room in their house) had used this cave as an office. Many grandiose feats were accomplished there. Only reading, writing, arithmetic, and constructive activities were allowed in this kingdom! Somewhere along the lines, with an abundance of resources and a misdirected need for remoteness, this office slowly morphed into an act of desertion to our ideological beliefs, a location no longer to produce or create but solely to escape.
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Gone will be the days where the man cave, or the newly defined ‘mantuary’, is merely used as a location only to pound beers and break free from the family.
Caves, Batman Approved
Since teenagers, we’ve been dealing with an Icarus complex, and as men, the feeling of immortality strikes us far too often. Unfortunately, we do not possess the gift of invincibility, and much like Batman, we can use our cave to help save the world. A place to escape can motivate us to continue working on ourselves.
If escaping is a must (to which we all need to run from what we like to call reality at times), then escaping is what needs to happen because we men need to have a place to call our own. Even outside of the beautifully simplistic and logically sound interior design, we have crafted a place where we are allowed to be alone and virtually free from unwanted external distractions. There’s no pressure to conform to anyone else’s feng shui but our own!
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What we do in the man cave is far more critical than the need to have one.
Productivity in the Man Cave
Multiple channels to release energy productively will be a staple in the man cave. Yes, crushing some beers and watching the game is a great escape, but that serves only as a distraction. Why not journal? Read a book—practice yoga. Create!
We rarely get enough time with our thoughts to let them sit and marinate. Let’s start to use this allocated time to dive into our psyche, at least once in a while. The beauty in the journey of growing our emotional intelligence knows it’s just that, a journey. We need to take time each day to focus our energy. This can help us confront our ego and aid in deciphering what trauma our ego is protecting us from. Only one person can choose how we actively focus our energy. Upon doing so, remember the modern-day man cave also needs to be a nucleus for self-discovery.
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