a little boy asks
A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him.
“I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “And you never will.”
Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?”
“All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked,
“God, why do women cry so easily?”
God said, “When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.”
“You see my son,” said God, “the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart the
place where love resides.
What a wonderful blog, and all so true.. crying is a release from tension, and in Continental countries men cry as much as women , their more emotional than there western counterparts, I think it may be because they are extremely close to their Mothers , in Italy Mothers are reveered by their Son’s. as well as daughters reveer their Mothers , son’s more so.
If little boys were taught to cry they might grow up to be as strong as women.
Thanks roxy lovely story.
Very nice way to see women. I agree about allowing little boys to cry, it might allow them to be more sensitive.
I think men are not afraid to show their emotions in some other countries…….but men in the UK have been in the past taught to show the stiff upper lip as it were……but todays generation I think not so much…….. but to be quite honest I don’t want a man blubbering on my shoulder every two minutes, am there if needed, but an over emotional men not for me……….x
I agree with laurie. 😀
Loved this thanks Roxy x