About Crying

People eat, people laugh, people pee, people shit, people sneeze… and people cry. Crying is nothing bad; it’s just something that happens naturally to human beings. Yet, nobody likes crying and nobody likes seeing people cry.

Recently I heard someone saying that crying is a sign of weakness. Well, what can I say, I totally disagree. To me it’s rather a sign of strength. I actually admire people who don’t feel embarrassed about crying in front of others. I have seen lots of strong people cry in my life, which, to be honest, has broken my heart, but hasn’t made me think any worse of them; all the contrary! When you cry, it’s because there’s something inside you that needs to get out. So, if it has to get out, let it out and, believe me, you’ll feel better for it. If we cry, after all, it’s because this is one of our full range of bodily functions. If we couldn’t cry, we wouldn’t.

Crying comes often as a result of some extreme emotional experience. We cry when something hurts us physically or emotionally, we cry when we are very angry, we cry when we’re really happy or sad or when we feel really happy or sad for someone else, we cry when we lose someone we love and when we miss someone really badly, we cry with frustration and we cry with laughter. It’s funny how so extremely opposite emotions can generate the same kind or response in our bodies, which makes me think of where exactly are the boundaries between extreme happiness and extreme sadness. Human brains are a real mystery!