Crying
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What is crying? Why do we cry? Does crying always associate with sadness and pain? How can we tell if the person is crying out of happiness or pain inside?
I took a bus back home today. Saw a toddler talking to her family while standing and the bus took a jerk forward and she fell down. She cried as a result and rather loud too, I might add. As I was watching the 'awkward' situation from a corner as her father helped her up, it made me ponder as I see her cry.
We cry because we are in pain. We cry because we are hurting inside our heart. We cry simply because its one of the most effective ways to vent out deep unhappiness in us.
Is it sand that threw itself into our eyes that caused tears to form and well up in our eyes? Or we cry so as to purge any possible toxin that coagulate in our eyes and subsequently wash our eyes? Or maybe we cry because we are just plain emotional?
When we see a couple on the aisle exchanging vows of marriage or a newborn baby, even graduation of the young adult, we can somehow see a few individuals, mostly the mother or close relative, shed tears. Normally we dismiss it off as tears of happiness and joy.
Can you imagine seeing a new life, or years of grooming come to fruition or even seeing your child tying the knot makes you so happy and felt joy that mere words could not even describe that, tears are the best way to express that feeling.
Is that really the case? Seeing a newborn coming into the world of treachery, betrayal, mistrust and others. Or seeing that the young graduate is now about to face the REAL world, not under the shelter of the parents anymore. Seeing the married couple is now going to face new challenges and issues they could never imagine possible or happening to them. Does the crying kin subsconsciously know what it will be like or is there more? Perhaps a mixture of happiness and sadness?
We fall down and blood trickles from the knee, we cry. We got caned by our mothers and made to kneel, we cry. We get ridiculed by friends or peers, we cry. We felt injustice as the teachers blamed us for something we did not do, we cry. We broke up with our dates, we cry. Our kins or friends passed away, we cry. A heated arguement with our family, we cry alone. Years of pain and fustration bottled up into us, we find a place and cry.
So many things to make us cry. Its an innate ability since coming out from our mothers' womb. Its so natural and easy to do. Babies cry when they are hungry, uncomfortable or wanted attention. Kids cry when they are bullied, hurt or unable to get what they wanted. Teenagers cry when they break up, get maligned or couldn't make the grade. Adults cry when they felt helpless, lost or fustrated.
However, I left out the question on 'What is crying'.
Is crying a way to ease tension and pain? Perhaps its really to wash the toxin away? Or maybe there really is no reason to answer what exactly is crying.
I only know this: Crying is a gift.
When you are misunderstood, bullied, tortured or anything that hurts you, anger is there. Loss of rational thinking is inevitable. Maybe you will plot some sort of revenge or just try to direct the negative emotions to your own benefit. When all these are gone and done with, all that is left are the pain and sorrow that are not dealt with. What was earlier done could not justify or even soothe the pain that is in you.
What can you do?
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I've actually wriiten an article quite very long time back before I came to this forum...
And I can hardly opt for 'crying' nowadays too....? Too bad? -
crying spoils eyes
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Im not crying but tears start to roll down my cheeks and I couldnt stop them
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Botak yandao sounds so intellectual.. high EQ.. i lub him even more now..
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i dunoe.. i seldom cry...
i would rather stay happy then cry...
=)
CHEER UP GUYS
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del.
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Whoa, somebody MIA for so long suddenly emerges to exhibit an intellectual streak sia! Well done!
Presents Bontakun a trophy. -
overflowing of mix sad / pain / maybe (anger) emotions
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Crying is a way to release.. and sometimes, we could not control our tears from not flowing..
u mentioned crying out of happiness or sadness.. but sometimes we also cry out of fear. -
animals do cry too, for those who dunno that.
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I cry cos I cannot afford to bottle up my feelings for too longOriginally posted by browniebaobao:Crying is a way to release.. and sometimes, we could not control our tears from not flowing..
u mentioned crying out of happiness or sadness.. but sometimes we also cry out of fear.
thought my family would understand me
but they think it's even more nuisance for them
what to do?
cry or don't? crying is a gift?
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crying with no emotions, n u ask yourself, y m i crying?
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bonta owe outing pay outing thanks. if not all of us will cry.
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hmm actually there is a proverb says "guys can bleed, but cannot cry", l tink is rubbish lor...
who says guys cnt cry...sad den cry lo, better than bottling up in the heart, more worse
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Crying can be due to alot of issues...
It can be due to internal factors or external factors...
Internal factors are like stress, relationship problems etc...
External factors are like being afraid, wanting attention (especially for young kids)...
Sometimes crying is good also.. as it can help to release stress in one... but not too much as it will jeapordise one's thinking and feelings...
Thus be moderate and make sure that everything is back to normal after the "flood" and put it behind you... -
Fumoffu?!
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+1
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Not neccssary sometime i cry because i am happy...
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because we are human afterall...