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WHY DO WOMEN CRY?



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MEN< STOP MAKING A WOMAN CRY

Last Wednesday morning, I saw a woman crying and talking to someone on the phone. A guy who was walking in the opposite way looked at her and gets shocked, i was like five or five strides away from her. She hung up the phone and kept sobbing and walking. I did not dare to talk to her. She was speaking Turkish or Iranian language. 



The reason I did not try to console her was, I had two bad experiences in this city. I jumped and tried to help two women, but they rejected my help. 



If it was happening in Ethiopia, I could hear what was she saying louder and kept crying like a bitter child. Her tears flowed down and made her head scarf wet. She walked to Union Square, I went to the entrance for metro and she went to the bus station.



We see so many women crying everyday. Losing a child, divorce, getting fired from their offices, abused by husbands and boy friends, beaten by a brother, acid attack, rape, war, unemployment...etc.



Even nature is so hard on women. Crying to bring life to this world, And when that child , the one those mothers paid a lot of sacrifice for him can be killed by road accident, shot by anyone for no reason, kidnapped, or just disappeared and when they know they will never see that child, that makes them cry bitterly.



I saw my mother once crying, screaming, telling the story of her beloved son out of ten children,,,



the following morning after he passed away. I was with her and my aunt, she jumped out of the car and dived on the road to smash her head and die. She could not make it. Later that day, somebody asked her about the big round which has a size of ground tennis ball on her forehead. \"I wanted to die with my son and burred with him, but failed.\" That son was her whole world. 



Does the world know what a mother, a sister, a girl friend,  or a wife is?



Most of the guys, brothers, husbands, boy friends, fathers or male colleagues are busy belittling any female around them.  A sister is just like a mother when Mom is not around. She makes sure all the children are attended well before she sleeps. She disciplines her younger siblings, makes sweater and dresses for them, cooks for them, tutor them advice them. She tries to be a good model to all of them, even if siblings can see her in different ways.



 



Hey guys, I mean MEN, do not be a reason for a woman's cry. If you do not listen, TIME will make you cry someday.

  • Environment
  • Gender-based Violence
    • Africa
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