A FATHER BREAKS TOO… BUT IN SILENCE.
Article by Dr Harvinder Mankkar A father hears everything. He sees everything. He feels everything. Every cry of his child pierces his heart. Every tear his child sheds wounds his soul. Every pain his child goes through becomes a battle he fights within himself. Yet, he stands there silently. Not because he doesn’t care. Not because his heart doesn’t hurt. But because he knows that sometimes, his children need his strength more than they need to see his pain. A mother may cry when her child suffers, and the world sees her tears. But a father’s tears often fall behind closed doors, in the darkness of a sleepless night, when there is no one around to ask him, “Are you okay, Papa?” Because everyone asks a father to be strong, but hardly anyone asks him how much strength it takes to keep standing when his own heart is breaking. Do you know what hurts a father the most? It is not his own suffering. It is watching his child suffer and feeling helpless. It is hearing pain i...