“Tears are the summer showers to the soul”, said Alfred Austin.
While Alfred might have said from his own point, but if I have to give interpretation to these words. Tears are the expression of soul. When the manners of word through actions and words fail, tears take the way to express the soul.
Tears of happiness, sadness or fear; wherever they arise, one thing that is common is the depth they arise from. When the feeling is beyond the surface, then only one can see the drops in eyes swell up. The world’s rules guide us that the water in our eyes is sign of our vulnerability. Don’t do it in front of others. Don’t do it too often. Else you will be not be taken seriously. In the fear of being termed as week we allow this water to stay behind the eyes and keep swelling inside us.
But it is not easy to cry. It is not easy to show the water in your eyes. It requires a compassionate heart, the heart that is not too burdened with the rules of world. People say life is a race and to win the race we have to be strong and fight to the end. It is ironical that we keep running, unaware of the fact that the next step in this race can be our last step.
The idea of having an aim and being goal oriented is indeed needed for the world to grow. However, it is fatal when this desire to progress and win, removes the humaneness from us. At times we take pride in being tough and hard. But if we look into nature. Everything that is beautiful and source of life is soft and flowing. Just look at the streams of water, fruit laden trees. They are all tender and giving.
In the hardships of life, we choose the toughness as a survival instinct. However, a regular check on how this toughness is changing our core is very much needed. Innocence of the soul should be protected. If we feed too much of the ways of world like selfishness, deceit and greed; we shut the soul inside.
The kindness in the soul should be alive. We should be able to see it come in action for our self as well as others. It is the natural empathy of human soul that keeps this earth alive. Else the power groups are anyways ready to trigger the buttons of destruction. The social consciousness should never be deprived of kindness else human greed is indeed a limitless demon.
So, keep doing that regular check about the hidden softness in corner of heart. And there is no harm in allowing it to flow through the eyes.
What brings a tear of joy to your eye?