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Bewilderment and Tears

“Frequent or seldom flood in eyes –Men at cry”, read title of an article I wrote in class ninth in the diary I maintained. What inspired me was the article I read  in Times life, Sunday supplement of Times of India in those summer vacations. That article forced me to think on why men are trained not to cry. I talked to my male colleagues and male relatives to know how they respond to crying. "Yes there are times when we feel broken, then we get over it, we don’t express it too often ", this what majority of them said. A year back I saw a video ‘boys don’t cry’. The video showed how society conditions men not to cry and when men become stoic we complain men do not pay heed to their emotional needs or people around them. Men will men, what we end being saying. First society traps a human being within his /her identity. We make them close individuals who are made to behave or not to behave in a certain way. I have seen a lot of women crying. I cry a lot too, most of t