Tears as a Secret Weapon

When babies are born they cry. They are a sheer pathetic lot of helplessness who need nutrition and protection. How could we the advance arrivals describe the situation those poor things are put in, totally naked and unprotected?


Babies give cries when they need them. They don't tell you who also don't know about the implications of familiar yet mysterious sounds. Puzzled mothers and perplexed fathers ask hasty questions of their offsprings in distress, they cry with them too often, in utter frustrations.

Cries might not be the only means of communications between babies and their parents but they must be its most useful channel. Over months and years the two parties come to develop other conveyances of meaning. However, the children almost always turn out to be winners, getting the better of their adult kinsfolk.

Men and women are a cunning lot. Their craftiness exhorts them to preserve the precious sounds and gesticulations as a secret weapon far into the later years even when they have discarded the habit and made the language a replacement. Why not cry, knowing that cries are the best and inexpensive instrument which could be used to fulfill your ends?

Shrill cries fill the national air. Movie stars weep away their divorce excuses. Scholars in the academia apologizing for their plagiarisms wipe off their brazen faces. It's been a real weird footage for us to see scores of the political faces belonging to the ruling party of the Korean National Assembly with all tears, appealing to the sympathetic masses for their plights in relation to the Opposition Party Congressmen.