Yeah....how do you cry...? R u puzzled...as the question usually is " Why do you cry?"....but i am not making a mistake here....i am asking " How do you cry?"....
At the end of Part II , Shantaram theres a line ...
" Sometimes we cry with everything but tears "
Wow ! what a thought...and how true it is...yes...a lot of things happens when people start crying with other then tears...Hellen Keller being deaf and blind chose not to cry with tears but to chase the unquenchable hope to escape her difficult days and became internationally famous at the age of ten, and remained to be the most inspiring human being ! DEAF N BLIND....take a min to imagine it....is it not difficult even to picture it...? yes it is...but she learned language so well that she graduated with a BA in English...and she has written books ...how do u explain a blue sky to someone who cant see it and cant hear ur explainations....how could she relate colors in her writings....? How do u explain sweet music to some one who cant hear it...?....Now i dunno if i marvel the ability of Helen Keller or the teacher, Anne Sullivan who was able to get these ideas and facts into the darkness of her silent mind ...
"before my teacher came to me i did not know that i am" . " I lived in a world that was no-world, My mind was in a state of anarchy in which meaningless sensations rioted"
....says Keller in her book, The World I Live In.
"MY darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence and , Behold, the outer daylight world was stumbling and groping in social blindness"
She devoted most of her adult life to work for the blind, was a strong advocate for the blind and deaf visiting over 35 countries and publishing 14 books about her experiences which was translated to more than 50 languages.
She also said ....
" Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state i may be in, therein to be content"
" Technically we know how to prevent blindness...but socially we do not know how. Socially we are still ignorant"
So...thats how Hellen Keller cried...!
And there are endless list of people who have cried with everything but tears...Mandela cried by fighting against apartheid...Martin Luther King cried by committing to a struggle to end racial segregation...Mother Theresa cried by lending her hand out to all those who needed a touch of love....and there are thousands of people around the world crying in some little ways to make this world a better place....
So...how do i cry...?
I am no Theresa nor Hellen Keller....but in my own little ways ....i have chose to cry not with tears but.....with love...a little act of love no matter how small towards anything and anyone in the world stirs the stillness into reverbrations of multiplied love ....
Hmm....well HOW DO YOU CRY ?
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