A thought-provoking contemplation on life, “When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying”, by American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, shakes my emotions up all the time. Death puts our life to rest and makes dear ones restless. This project looks at, who is really the "everyone else"? This project is a reminder, who will really cry when we die?
Grief is not a short time of pain in response to a loss. Learning to live with the loss of someone we love can take a long time, and just as everyone’s grief is different, so each person feels differently as time passes after a bereavement. Coping with death is vital to our mental health, but do we really fill the void left by the death of a loved one? This is ongoing work.
A thought-provoking contemplation on life, “When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying”, by American essayist and poet Ralph Wal...
Sayan Hazra
Sayan is an independent documentary storyteller based in India.
