‘COL’ Anthem- A carefree cry

                                                   ‘COL’ Anthem- A carefree cry

 

Have you ever thought which emotional reaction are you first acquainted with in your life right from its very start? Take a second or so and think!!!

Crying it is. When a baby is born he cries to communicate his emotions. Do you think it has got an impact on our lives or does it have a message to convey? The UNICEF estimates that an average of 353,000 babies, are born each day around the world. And is it not fascinating to observe the same pattern performed by every child in each part of the world irrespective of its class, creed or gender. Is nature trying to convey something through this pattern???

Well, the very first and true emotional reaction of humans are, to cry. But why does a baby cry? The reason could be fear, or his uneasiness, or pain of getting detached with his mother after a period of nine months. There can be plenty of emotions behind a single reaction and the baby has been gifted with the first right to showcase his emotion through crying irrespective of what the society would interpret it. And the irony of the situation is the celebration and the welcoming ceremony of human’s first ‘cry’. None of the other emotional action has ever achieved such an applaud other than crying. But with the passage of time this auspicious action is interpreted as a weakness which friends is a curse in our society. You can be dishonest and disloyal to the world and yourself but cannot have the courage, to be honest about being weak for a small span of time.

There is a misconception that people have that those who have the ability to hide their real emotions such as grief and pain, are the strongest ones. But is hiding a strength or a weakness?? Think!!! 

Let us remember those moments when we would hide our grades with our parents and siblings and would burn in fear anticipating the implications when the truth of our performance would be revealed. Sleepless nights and stress we were confronted with. We were accompanied with plenty of emotions of stress, fear, frustration, grief running through our minds for a couple of days and nights due to this uneasy act of hiding. And what if we had faced those moments with courage and disclosed our grades instead of hiding them. What relief had it been? Relief lies in a reveal and not in a hide. So is hiding a solution??

If not, then why to hide our own emotions with ourselves? Why can’t we let our emotions flow through our eyes in courage rather than torturing ourselves in the guilt of hiding our own selves with the world and us? Let us break this social taboo that crying is a weakness. It is rather a strength, as it releases out your stress and frustration refreshing us to start again killing all the negativities inside us and starting afresh. That is what nature is trying to convey with each second a baby is born, that to start afresh cry hard to smile for long. It is high time to follow the ‘COL’ anthem that is ‘cry out loud’ moment, because to have a ‘LOL’ moment it is very necessary to follow a ‘COL’ moment. Spread it across, and see how a happy world can be created with a carefree cry.