Crying to Heart’s Content

In the modern society, weeping is often considered fragile, or so it has been deemed. Although there have been popular phrases like “It’s okay, not to be okay”, and “Crying isn’t an act of weakness”, yet the reality seems to be strikingly different. Just a few days back, a publication had mentioned about animal cemeteries, that have risen in popularity. 

Reading the headline, I had opened the link, to find an amazingly interesting piece, however, things didn’t end happily. Especially because mention was being made about all those animal lovers that had reserved their endearment for their loved ones, about those that held the four-legged creatures close to their hearts, where their bereavement meant the end of the world, even though to the other part of the world, it might mean nothing less than an act of play. 

Newspaper reports would be suggesting that at a time (barring the COVID times) when family members plead their children to spare sometime out for their relatives’ funeral, a lot of times, it’s been found that the children covered their absence with some unavoidable circumstance, not bothering about the nefarious glances of the neighbours. There have been other reports of them not appearing to perform their own mother’s last rites as well…

What is to be thought and discussed here, is does it ever occur before the human mind that somewhere down the line, all of this is wrong morally, ethically? 

To the logical and humanitarian mind, it is perhaps. 

There isn’t any question on the piousness or integrity of an individual, but just a mere question as to why can’t the animal sympathisers wail their heart out in pain and grief, over the loss of their dear friends, child or sibling? What’s so wrong in personifying relations, even if they aren’t for reserved for humans? 

Why can’t they, therefore, shed tears sans sneers and indignation? Why can’t their feelings in the forms of tears be allowed to be expressive? What is it that seems to be so very derogatory and unsophisticated to the standards of the society? 

If they want to cry their hearts out, let them.