Why women cry?

I was tidying my desk and found a piece of paper titled "Why women cry?". It was from Puan Apsah during International Women's Day. Reading it again, makes me feel ... i don't know how to describe... it is just something that will make your heart sort of melt a bit, felt a little bit of pain, plus sadness.

Why Women Cry?

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 lover her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her other half through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good partner never hurts her, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.”

“You see my son,” God said, “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.”

written on 22nd May 2007