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[Khushi]

Why Women Cry                
   
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?"
"Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never
will."

Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could
say.

The little boy grew up and became a man,
Still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the
phone,
He asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said: "When I made the woman she had to be
special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight

of the world, yet gentle
enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and
the
rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going
when
everyone else gives up, and take care of her family
through
sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under
any
and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt
her
very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his
faults
and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never
hurts
his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her
resolve
to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers
exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is
not
in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries,
or
the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,
because that
is the doorway to her heart - the place where love
resides."