“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carl W. Buechner
Do we have the right to go emotional? Some may say it is the way of the featherheaded. Some may not. I belong to the latter group. If you are so deeply involved in something, you have every right to flirt with your emotions. Who wants to be a serious, non-smiling, non-emotional macho? That idea of a life sans emotions brings into my mind the picture of idiotic people. As idiotic as idiots!
It was our farewell party at the Department of MCJ, University of Calicut. It is the fifth time that I participate in a farewell party at the department. The first instace was our super senior` s party and people like Asha Konnayath were on the verge of their emotional break down. Then comes our seniors party and even Sherin Chelakkara managed well. But everyone was gloomy. Later it was Sasi Bhooshanan Sir`s party and at the end of his speech he couldn’t complete his words and just folded his palms together and repeated the words “thank you” for a couple of times. His eyes were filled with tears. So was our attender Devakyechi`s sent off party. She just said something and cried.
This time it was my turn. Almost every one started their talk with telling the audience that “I don’t have anything special to mention”. I had a nice beginning when I started off. But when I was tracing my ‘campus connection’, I lost. So I just said that “I am struggling for words” and went out of the hall thinking that ‘it is better to stop singing when you have your voice at its best’.
Intensity of the situation and ones involvement is always related. I was studying in sixth standard when my mother` s father died. Though I was very attached, I didn’t shed a drop of tear when I saw his dead body lying in our ancestral home. I didn’t cry even when my father died. But I was shattered when our dear teacher A.Soman died of cancer in an early age.
Fighting with emotion is like just like fighting with the shadow. The more you try to avoid it the more you go frantic. Cry as often as you laugh and laugh as often as you cry. Be a human being. Not rhino.
Do we have the right to go emotional? Some may say it is the way of the featherheaded. Some may not. I belong to the latter group. If you are so deeply involved in something, you have every right to flirt with your emotions. Who wants to be a serious, non-smiling, non-emotional macho? That idea of a life sans emotions brings into my mind the picture of idiotic people. As idiotic as idiots!
It was our farewell party at the Department of MCJ, University of Calicut. It is the fifth time that I participate in a farewell party at the department. The first instace was our super senior` s party and people like Asha Konnayath were on the verge of their emotional break down. Then comes our seniors party and even Sherin Chelakkara managed well. But everyone was gloomy. Later it was Sasi Bhooshanan Sir`s party and at the end of his speech he couldn’t complete his words and just folded his palms together and repeated the words “thank you” for a couple of times. His eyes were filled with tears. So was our attender Devakyechi`s sent off party. She just said something and cried.
This time it was my turn. Almost every one started their talk with telling the audience that “I don’t have anything special to mention”. I had a nice beginning when I started off. But when I was tracing my ‘campus connection’, I lost. So I just said that “I am struggling for words” and went out of the hall thinking that ‘it is better to stop singing when you have your voice at its best’.
Intensity of the situation and ones involvement is always related. I was studying in sixth standard when my mother` s father died. Though I was very attached, I didn’t shed a drop of tear when I saw his dead body lying in our ancestral home. I didn’t cry even when my father died. But I was shattered when our dear teacher A.Soman died of cancer in an early age.
Fighting with emotion is like just like fighting with the shadow. The more you try to avoid it the more you go frantic. Cry as often as you laugh and laugh as often as you cry. Be a human being. Not rhino.
2 comments:
but some people can feel everything in their hearts and not show anything outside....
thats true dear sherin. no one is spontaneous in its right sense.we show off spontaneity according to our convenience.so if this assumption is true, we can say that convenience always outlive spontaneity.
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