Sorrow, says prudence, makes us all children again — destroys all
differences of intellect, and when confronted with such circumstances, the
wisest know nothing.
My big brother Subi Samuel happens to be a sensational photographer
that the world admires for his ingenuity. Couple of days ago he shared
something by his friend Farah Ali Khan on his Facebook wall. The message that
Farah had inscribed merited a mention here. If I say more it would end up
diluting the essence of her words, so I am accompanying it with a snap of Farah
that Subi had shot.
“My 13-year-old
son’s friend in school lost his father yesterday to a heart attack. He further
went on to tell me how Ansh had come to school and how they all spoke to him of
everything except the incident because they did not want to cause him pain.
However, I asked my son to go back to his friend tomorrow and extend his hand
and tell him that he knows he is in pain, and if he would like to talk about it
to him, he should, because pain expressed is better than pain kept within. I
write this post out here so that we all can ask our children to help ease their
friend’s pain, whatever the circumstances be. It’s easier to share joy and step
away from pain, because we feel we will cause more. But most of the times it
makes sense to reach out to the ones in pain for even though they may not say
they need help, they do. We all do.”
Farah Ali Khan
14th March 2016
15.49
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