Dry Tears.

                          Dry Tears

          Srija was married to great pomp. Everyone was very happy. Srija was also very happy to get her favorite groom as her husband. All the guests left. Only a few close relatives watched the farewell, everyone's eyes were filled with tears. Srija's heart also started crying. All relatives started crying. Mother, the younger brother & sister started crying. But nobody knew that Gents never cry.

But there was only one person who was very calm. That was Mr. Gajendra Menon. Seeing this, everyone wondered how he was able to remain so silent on the farewell of the daughter, and while leaving the daughter, there was no moisture in her eyelids. Everyone was whispering among themselves. This whispering reached Srija's ears. Her father blessed newly married couple and smiled and went with them to leave till the car. She found her father was balanced. Neither did she heard the tinkling of his voice nor did she see a glimpse of moisture in his eyes. She was surprised to think that he did not even realize her separation . According to her, father would have at least acted like crying . She left maternal home unhappily . 

On the second day, Gajendra Menon came out early in the morning with his younger brother to her -in-law's house to invite them for home ward ritual Party . Srija's mother Devika wanted to call her daughter and tell her. So she called her but Srija could not pickup the phone in displeasure. Even she tried a couple of times but, later she realised that she was to be involved in the preparations for the ritual of homeward party. But Devika knew Gajendra well. Not crying of her husband did not mean that he did not have the sorrow of being separated from his daughter. But he did not wanted to show off. She knew this and she did not mind it. But the daughter felt bad. But she never knew that gents never cry.

     

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        After three hours' journey, they reached the Srija’s in-law's house in the afternoon. They were talking while reception . After meal and some rest in the evening, both of them got ready to go back to their home along the with bride and groom.  They all proceed to their journey towards Sirja’s house.

     On reaching home, the bride and groom were warmly welcomed. Everyone surrounded them as soon as they reached home. Both of them enjoyed .

              After dinner, both mother and daughter started talking in the backyard of the house. Devika then explained her, I know you are angry with your father because he did not cry on your farewell. But you do not know that he must have cried internally so much that no one cried as much. His initial habit was that he would never tell and express his grief. No matter how much misery, suffering, he digested all . But no one knows about it. He was always smiling. All were thinking this person did not cry even in the daughter's farewell. But nobody knows how many tears he had shed in his life. When he was young, poverty and parental illness made him cry, how much of his sibling's hunger made him cry. But he wiped his tears, worked in the day, earned his money, lived with his siblings and parents and studied hard by night. Faced with the circumstances, played the responsibility of everyone. He also medically treated his parents . But unfortunately they are no more. Nobody knows how much the sibling ’s rood behaviour made him to cry when they grow up. His tears also dried up , how much more weeping and his tears also dried up , how much more weeping and how many tears will be extinguished. If he smiles today , that is because of us otherwise he would be keep on crying life long . If we were not there in his life. After  Knowing all this, Srija's misunderstanding was cleared she ran and apologized to her father. After the home ward ritual the next day, she happily went to her in-laws house with sweet memories of this house.

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