ABOUT
TEARS AND LAUGHTER
If a person is in a tearful state, he is crying, weeping,
sobbing, wailing, emotionally upset, sad, sorrowful, melancholy, extremely
unhappy, has been hurt by some event, has suffered a loss or some unexpected defeat.
There may be any situation of grief which is relieved by
shedding tears. Psychologists believe that tears have a soothing effect, help
in relieving pain, liberate from depressive mood, etc.
Laughter is the opposite of crying. It shows a state of
amusement, good humour, merriment, gaiety, entertainment, hilarity, light-heartedness,
joy, mirth, happiness, amusement, etc.
There is a wonderful book entitled Tears And Laughter by the Lebanese-American writer and poet Khalil
Gibran(1883-1931). It is a translated version
from the Arabic by Anthony Rizcallah Perris. Given below is a short but very
significant extract from the Foreword of
this book.
“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the
fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears,
invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole
life on earth will ever be tears and laughter.
Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of
life and its mystery,
Laughter that brings me
closer to my fellow men;
Tears with which I join
the broken-hearted,
Laughter that symbolizes joy
over my very existence.”
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G.R.Kanwal
18th August 2024
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