Do you cry?

Hope said:

I used to be unable to cry. I guess because when I was younger I bottled all my feelings inside me, to the point that even when I really, really wanted to cry, I couldn't. It was horrible. But a few years ago, God began to heal a lot of inward 'issues' I had, and thanks to Him, I can now cry. :woohoo: I don't cry very often, but it's wonderful to be able to, when the occasion calls for it---I don't take it for granted.

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Wow, Hope, that's incredible.

I cry all the time. I'm a cry baby. But usually it's tears of happiness.

Sunstone said:

You really know how to rub it in! I'll be weeping all morning!

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Awww so sorry Sun... need a tissue? :woohoo:

just kidding

I sure cry. Lots of tears, but rather silently. "Sad" is too blunt a reason, so I haven't voted. When I was much younger, I watched Captains Courageous - and did I cry!! Being more sensitive then to other people's reactions, I was glad that the theatre was dark.

Now comes the interesting part, I think. In the last not very many years, I cry aka weep a lot. Sometimes, it is sufficient that I read in the morning paper of a puppy that got its tail caught in a door. I find it difficult to clear my eyes when reading of disasters. I was more positive to Pope John Paul II when he was new in the business, but despite his later conservatism my eyes are filled with tears when reading of his last days.

There may be (at least) two reasons that I'm rather over-sensitive now. The physiological explanation: my brain infarction as a result of my stroke may have hit a restraining centre. I sometimes say that it hit a centre for social restraint. Nowadays, I find it immensely easier to get friends, communicate with strangers etc.

The psychological explanation is that I was so hard hit by my (and my then fiancée's) dog, an absolutely lovely Red (aka Irish) Setter girl, just over one year of age, acquiring an incurable auto-immune disease. I was hit so hard that I developed a case of herpes zoster, and for several years, I couldn't discuss her with anybody: relatives, friends, physicians, psychologists, without bursting into tears. So if you find misspellings in this post, you know why. That experience might very well have made me more sensitive as well as moer empathetic.

Please note that I'm not complaining. I think that those experiences (and a few others) have helped me to live a more enjoyable life than ever before. I as well as the people around me feel that I'm a human being, not a robot of sorts, and I sure am now more open to other people's feelings and needs, and I try to be pre-emptively helpful to people I know and care for. Finally having arrived at atheism, I can't rely on any one book or whatever to tell me what to do and how to behave, so I have to develop a consistent set of ethics of my own with which I can live in a way that's acceptable to me as well as to my environment and applicable laws and regulations (heck, that last part was a case of a technical translator's occupational disease). Not to be suspected of proselytizing, I won't elaborate on that angle.

I am a very emotional person and have a low tolerance for my heart being broken. I cry a lot when I have been emotionally hurt, physical pain I can take (most of the time).

I cary sometimes. It has to be a certain type of movie. And sometimes I cry at times in a movie that isn't sad. Like in hidalgo in the beginning when he tells hidalgo "let her budge" (Or something like that ) And the horse runs real fast and wins. That made me cry. I always cry in horse movies (not sure why, its something I am trying to figure out.) I cried during The Last Samurai as well, I HATE WESTERN PEOPLE!!!! Sometimes a good orchestral piece will move me enough to cry, celtic fiddle and other strings. Oh yeah. And I cry when I have to deal with dead spirits, but I'm getting used to it. So I'm not as depressed anymore. I've been crying alot lately because of an issue I'm going through. But I can safely say that I'm almost out of it. So I'm doing better.

Bastet said:

Not if you're referring to the Beatle.

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LOL funny girl funny funny girl

When me and a GF break up we usually laugh. I just have that sort of affect on people.

LOL...you though THIS would work?! lol!!!

We usually continue being friends after the breakup always nice stuff.

I can cry quite often. Almost never for physical pain (except when I was unconscious with a concussion), but often for emotional pain, I will cry.

Do you cry?

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I tend to get emotional over things that are either incredably happy or things that are incredably sad. Usually they involve either family, children or animals, but recently I was touched by the movie 'Million Dollar Baby'. Man, that movie shook me up.

I cried today It's been a long time. You know I had prayer answered. Happy tears of Joy
I find it hard to cry. some think that's bad . Some say it's cold.