Strength, Weakness, You and I.

"I trusted you with my weakest moments." He said. "And now that I think of it, I realize I should not have. I should not have trusted you."

"I could have lied, you know. I could have behaved like most men do. I could have pretended to be a strong person. But the truth is, I could not, because I was not; except for that very moment when I stood naked with all my weaknesses before you."

"That was one moment of strength for me. That was one moment of truth- for me as much as it was for you."

"Alas! you could not see the courage and strength a man has to muster when he confesses his weakness to his women. All you could see that I was weak at some distant moment in the past."

"I am glad though" He continued, "that you failed to see through me. I was as transparent as water. But still the thing that scared you the most, now I realize, could have been ripples of your own reflection which was distorted with judgments and twisted with biases."

"In your actions, my dear, I observed a valuable lesson. A lesson for both men as well as women."

"Strength is relative and no man is ever a strong man. Emotions and sentiments are part of him as much as they are of you and even though society expects him to be rough and exhibit all the other aspects of the male stereotype, being human always precedes his manhood. Society and perhaps women, like you, who always expect him to put on a show of his strength above all in all the situations, trust me, they simply fail to understand a blatant fact that for every tear the human within him cries, he needs a gentle warmth of women to wipe it off his cheek."

"And if you believe that when he feels like crying or cries for that matter and trust me he does, he should not come to you and find his peace in his own solitude, it is not his flaw that he cried or could not pacify himself, it is you who failed him in his moment of weakness as well as in that of the strength."

"Weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything is, it is the bias driving you away from the weak."

-Sourabh Raghavendra.

(An excerpt from 'The Letters he Never Wrote.')