Cry…at least give it a Try.

“You crying? What a lame you are.” Often we hear such things. Whenever someone cries, it’s taken as a weakness.

Crying – an activity wherein tears generally fall out of eyes, irrespective of being happy or sad. It has its own purposes behind it.

When a baby cries, then maybe she is hungry, or uncomfortable or longing for her mother. Here there is no other meaning of crying.

When it turns to a toddler, then crying is one of the tactics used to get the demands fulfilled from their parents.

Or when got low grades, crying in the fear of how to face the same parents.

Crying is one of the important human emotions among many others like laughing, getting angry, happy, sad etc.

It’s been said that every human being when comes into this world, cries. If it doesn’t, then there is some serious issue with that baby.

It has different meanings as we age in our life and also depends at what situations we do cry.

Not only this, crying also helped making the language richer by giving some popular proverbs like, ‘crying wolf’, ‘crying baby gets the milk’ and the famous, ‘shedding crocodile tears’.

It’s really weird as crying is considered only for weak. There are many examples in life and we also have seen in history, where great people too have cried.

Reading a book, engrossed in the characters, something happens to any of the characters, bring tears to the eyes.

Watching a movie, a serious, sentimental scene and you reach out to your hankies for the help.

Or even watching a solid comedy, where you can’t stop laughing and I think that only must have given us this saying, “laugh till they cry”.

To cry one needs a big heart and great strength. It’s the way one can show how soft, one is at heart. It’s an emotion.

In India, during the “Bidai”, one of the many ceremonies in the wedding, wherein the father has to say good-bye to his daughter, it’s a typical and expected scene in almost every marriage.

However strong a father he is, nothing stops the tears from coming. That situation is very emotional. That tears are the flood of all the moments they were together.

During my marriage, it was getting difficult for me as well [genuinely] to save myself from crying during the “Bidai” ceremony. I unnecessarily started talking to my friends to avoid it.

Sometimes I think, crying is a natural way of cleansing one’s own heart and mind. It frees us from the heaviness, relaxes at some extent and tells us, whatever happened, happened. Now we can start it afresh.

It’s been said, ‘never let them see you cry’, don’t cry in-front of your kids, closed ones. But that’s a wrong way to show how strong one is. Just because one cries, doesn’t change the situation, but it tells how genuine it is and help convey the emotions without uttering a single word.

Crying is not a weakness, if someone thinks so, then it’s the biggest mistake one making in the life.