Stoicism, Tears and the Killing of a Deer

The prosocial, positive psychological and biologically-rooted male instinct.

I was twenty and in search of my new “Promised Land” in the Rocky Mountains. They were the very opposite of my despised city of Pittsburgh, with its dirty streets and garbage, its fast food and clouds in the sky every day.

The mountains of Colorado seemed to always be clear of clouds, the deepest blue, and offered snow-capped green terrain, healthy peopl…