Women’s Response To Grief

Love is definite for the ones with whom we have spent our best times, dream of living together forever, and sharing every moment of joy or sorrow. It’s the rule of nature that any person who has been sent to this world must leave, and this cycle must continue. Every person has a limited period to spend and fulfill their responsibilities, and then leave. We all are very well aware of this truth and nature continuous cycle. Although, we are aware but usually it become difficult for us to accept certain things and this acceptance is often linked with temporary reactions.

When it comes to reacting to a certain situation, both men and women react differently. Men, by nature, are considered emotionally more strong as compared to women. We see different men facing difficult situations very heartily, and some bear without tears. While if we look into women’s reaction to a tough situation, this is often full of emotional comments and tears. We usually exit such debates by saying that women are comparatively less emotionally stable than men.

I went to a public hospital and the society where I live. Public hospitals usually cover around 5-10 districts. So, you can imagine the hustle and bustle in such hospitals. Cases like death, accidents, and extreme medical conditions are pretty common and considered routine situations in such hospitals. The day I went was a less hectic day, with a slightly smaller number of patients. Although some serious cases were admitted, too.

I was with my mother, and we were waiting for someone. Silence was all around, but suddenly few very sharp cries and wails just reached our ears. I just stepped inside the ward to check the reason and came across a few young ladies around 30-35 years of age, crying and beating their heads while lamenting. I considered it very awful to ask the reason behind such an act, but it was evident that their patient was no more. Seeing such a situation, my mother just asked me to leave immediately, and my facial expression was telling the hidden tension of not being able to see such a distressing situation. I just watered down my belief that females are less emotionally stable and went away.

On my way home, I continued to think about that incident, and was self-questioning and answering about women’s emotional stability. I just came across a thought that there might be a possibility that the young ladies who were crying over the death of their relative never thought about his death. Even if their relative was admitted, they considered the hospital a place from which they would go back again with better energy and live a life with the same happiness again. Maybe, they were too idealistic, and they watered their assumptions (assuming that if by something their patient gets well) too much, so that it became difficult for them to face reality. Maybe they might not expect that the fact they know about everyone has to leave this world has such a harsh reality. Maybe they experienced a difference between knowing the fact and experiencing the fact.

I was just confused about the reasons for such reactions from those ladies. I was about to vote in favor of being too idealistic over emotional instability, but when I reached home and my mother’s facial expressions still forcing me to vote for emotional instability among women, but I’m still not too sure about my observations.

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