Do You Cry?

[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='FiZzGiG' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:39 AM'] I know what you mean. It's like no other emotions seem to fit...
One time, my English teacher just started crying during a poem, and I sort of giggled/smiled. Not because it was funny... it just came out. I mean, I didn't find it funny whatsoever.

I think maybe giggling/laughing/smiling is a reaction to both funny things and to awkward situations. It's just an awkward emotion for awkward situations.

Does that make any sense??


Probably not

~Kerry~ [/quote]
yeah, that makes sense.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:41 AM'] I think the same is true for birth. It's only been within the last 50 years or so that it's become common for births to be done in a sterile, antiseptic hospital environment. Before that birth was a part of the cycle of life, people gave birth in their homes. [/quote]
Well, true. The pendulum is swinging back though... from home to uber-steril-knock-the-mom-out-get-the-forceps births, to more moderate natural births, back to homebirths (why anyone would do that on purpose is beyond me... but to each her own!)

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='FiZzGiG' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:39 AM'] I think maybe giggling/laughing/smiling is a reaction to both funny things and to awkward situations. It's just an awkward emotion for awkward situations.
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I heard that laughing and crying are very closely connected... thus people cry when they are happy and laugh when sad or upset. Emotions are

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:53 AM'] Well, true. The pendulum is swinging back though... from home to uber-steril-knock-the-mom-out-get-the-forceps births, to more moderate natural births, back to homebirths (why anyone would do that on purpose is beyond me... but to each her own!) [/quote]
I have several friends who have done home births ... they really like the experience. As much as you can like birth, that is.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:55 AM'] I heard that laughing and crying are very closely connected... thus people cry when they are happy and laugh when sad or upset. Emotions are [/quote]
Yeah, I cry when I'm very happy. I can understand that.

[Carrie]

I cry all the time...happy, sad, depressed, overjoyed. It doesn't matter what the reason is, I just cry.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

I cry.

[theculturewarrior]

I cry for jai alai.



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[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Sep 13 2004, 09:59 AM'] I don't cry. It's really not healthy. I internalize grief. Sometimes I have giggling fits at funerals. Not because I'm happy the persons gone...it's just that I go numb. [/quote]
You know, sometimes this happens when we are dealing with death. One time we were on the way to the wake of my grandmother's funeral (the prayer vigil the night before) and you know, I was totally depressed, had been crying, the whole bit. I really loved my grandma. I still think about her a lot.

But we were driving to the church, and my brother was driving and made a wrong turn, came screeching to a halt in an alleyway. And in front of our car was this cat who just stared at us really dumbly. For some reason this struck me as funny, and I got into a fit of giggles on the way to the service. Nobody noticed me in the back of the car trying so hard to supress my laughter. At the same time I felt somewhat panicked wondering what the heck was wrong with me, and praying to God I would be able to stop before I got to the church.

I did manage to pull it together. It was still a really hard time.

When you first lose a parent, you cry all the time for at least a year, they say. That's certainly true for me because my mommy died unexpectedly a year ago in November. I didn't have any giggle fits at the funeral though. I had cried the entire morning prior, so during the funeral I was pretty drained and numb but calm. After she died our priest told me that God keeps our tears in a bottle and counts them in his book. Every tear.

Almost a year later, I have lots of funny things happen, especially at church -- that makes me believe Mom is smiling and watching over us.

What would we do without our tears?

[shelly_freak]

Yeah sure I cry. I cry mostly when it has to do with my faith or when I've heard something really terrible like on the news, like this morning I was watching the news and they talked about this habitat for humanity house that had been vandalized and burned by kkk memebers and I wept a few tears.

[cathoholic]

I can't cry just for anything, I have to have a lot of time without crying (years), and then it has to be a conbination between anger, impotence due to integrity or selfish pride, or sadness. I managed to shed a few tears during the Passion, but can you really help it when you know the symbolism and actually watching your sin being paid for by someone who doesn't deserve it? It's not that I don't want to cry, I just can't.

Edited September 13, 2004 by cathoholic

[Carnanc]

I cry at various times, though I'm not to sure exactly what situations cause it.

[rachael]

i cry quite a bit, especiallly when i am really really angry

[mattosika]

i WOULD NOT CRY FOR 19 YEARS, IT WAS EMBEDDED IN MY HEAD "WIMPS CRY". HOWEVER FOR THE LAST YEAR OR SO CRYING HAS BECOME A MAJOR PART INT HE HEALING PROCESS OF MANY HURTS. PLUS A GOOD CRY ACTUALLY DETOXIFIES YOUR BODY OF CARP THAT CAN ONLY BE DISPELLED THROUGH TEARS. THANK GOD FOR TEARS

[Moosey]

I cry when Im in the presence of the Lord, sometimes when I'm praying, and when I'm upset of course. I cry in front of my friends, infact I feel more comfortable crying in front of them because Im not only when I cry.

[voiciblanche]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Sep 13 2004, 09:59 AM'] I don't cry. It's really not healthy. I internalize grief. Sometimes I have giggling fits at funerals. Not because I'm happy the persons gone...it's just that I go numb. [/quote]
I'm kinda like that, too. When I get in trouble, like [i]big[/i] trouble, my parents have serious talks with me and I start laughing because I'm uncomfortable but I can't cry yet... it's bad, and it makes the situation like ten times worse.


As far as crying in general... if it's me being stupid and selfish and sensitive, I try not to let myself cry. Now, I cry a lot at Mass and Adoration most of the time. This, I don't try to stop.

[VeraMaria]

[quote name='voiciblanche' date='Sep 13 2004, 10:39 PM'] As far as crying in general... if it's me being stupid and selfish and sensitive, I try not to let myself cry. [/quote]
Ditto.

I'm afraid I'm too proud to cry


:ph34r:

[voiciblanche]

[quote name='VeraMaria' date='Sep 13 2004, 08:49 PM'] Ditto.

I'm afraid I'm too proud to cry


:ph34r: [/quote]
Nah, I don't think they're the same thing. St. Therese choked on her tears that weren't worth it - tears she would have shed because she was so sensitive that the slightest things would make her cry. [i]Those[/i] are the tears I try to avoid. Other than that... I can be quite the crying fool.

[Iacobus]

Most of the time I am too proud. But at times I do.

[Kaeldra]

Yeah I'll cry if its the right time and place...lol.