Tears are tricky beings. The more you resist to let them out of their cage, the more they hurt you. A hurt that burns ever so brighter, the more you try to ease it with worldly painkillers. The nature of water is to flow, and altering this force of nature is something man has no control over. We may try to stop its flow for a little time, building dams and embankments of various kinds into our hearts, but they do break away by the sheer force of the waters that strike them when the storm in our heart and soul rages to a point beyond which no man-made force can stop it. That is when we truly realise the actual power of these waters we hold inside us. All the ways of killing any form of pain inside our hearts put on one side, get trumped by the ease of pain one feels when they let those tears flow out of their eyes. It’s a painful process. The heart grows heavier once the pain inside it becomes unbearable, there is a feeling of heaviness in the chest that makes it harder to breathe, the eyes feel like they’re going to pop out of their sockets and land on the ground in front of you, and that truly is the moment when you feel your soul, writhing inside of your body, wanting to escape this vessel that carries it. That is when those tiny water droplets make it all go away. They make your heart a little lighter, quiet down your soul, bringing about a sense of calm inside your whole body. Those tears are the window through which the pain escapes you. It rides those waves and leaves you, only to return with your permission, if you let it. Pain is not a bad thing, letting pain hurt you unnecessarily is bad. Building an ocean of pain inside you is bad.
We all have that ocean inside of us. Some have a quiet one, for some, it rages on and on forever, some learn how to sail the waves, while the others fight with it all their lives, only to lose. That ocean is waiting for an escape route. Give it one today.