Boys don't cry...

Hey, are you a girl? His mother reprimanded him on his habit of crying on trivial issues.He was puzzled, felt aghast at this very notion that only girls can cry, or only the female fraternity has the right to show their sentiments in public. He demanded explanations; he resented his elder's beliefs.With years making their way and future becoming past and past becoming forgotten moments, his most hated belief became his nature and not to cry in hardest of the times became his usual characteristics.He didn't cry when all his efforts failed during his engineering entrance exams. Everybody pinched that there must have been some lacuna in his strategy. He accepted all the hate, all the remarks, taunts without a single tear. He completed his engineering from an unknown college and that too without a single hue of a spectrum of flying colures. He failed at every endeavor but he was trained not to cry over, not to show his emotions to the world. He finally hit the bull’s eye and ensured a good career in a high profile field.He detached himself from all the relations, all the bonds of love, and all the pleasures of life and molded himself to follow a life of austerity. Everybody admired his way of living, his nature of not crying over failures.So, living away from family, he started to get bad news about his closed ones ill health, their illness had worried him, he got good news as well, the new about his childhood friend's marriage, the new about his nephew started dawdling. All these things made him cry. However, it was not his nature to cry, he cried, he cried till the last drop of saline found its way out of his eyes.Suddenly somebody knocked on the door and you know who answered the knock on the door. He was the same boy, smiling like he has never been touched by the cruel games of life. There was not a single hint of sorrow on his face. Do you know why he was so well at controlling his emotions? It was because he was a boy and we all know that Boys don't cry......


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