Do you ever just need to cry?

Not for any particular reason, just to let out some sadness or something. Like when you hear a certain song, or read one of those chain letters about the 11 year old kid with cancer or something and you just cry, and feel a little better afterwards?

 

I think everybody needs a good cry every once in awhile. There's so many burdens that life casts upon you that you shoulder and just keep on walking without a second thought. You need to let them out occasionally. Sometimes the things that hurt you most are the things you had no idea about. Something may just trigger a realization of it, like a song, or a sad story.

 

Weird you say that. I was watching this show the other day on the History Channel called History rocks with Meatloaf. I don't remember what song it was, but they were doing a segment on the US evacuation of Vietnam in 1975. All the people of Saigon were scared the Vietcong would slaughter everyone following the pullout. Mothers were trying to pass their babies over the Embassy's fence hoping soldiers would take them to America so they could live. Really choked me up.

 

I'm a pretty emotional guy, but I have never cried a lot. I think I can trace it back to my childhood. My mother has always looked for strength in me while dealing with my father who isn't a good person... I would never allow myself to cry, so that I would be strong for her... so I haven't cried in a long time... maybe only a couple of times in years.

I do wish I could cry, but it's just not in me.

 

Yes...

And I've been around some of the best people to let you cry recently. Needed it for months.

 

smtimes i need
but actually i seldom can manage this for it's hard to let tears out for me
for some stupid reason

in fact i think it's a good emotional outlet

 

I get sad and depressed alot, but I usually only shed one tear and proceed to get fukt up on whatever's on hand.

 

Yeah, I've felt like that before...but I hate crying. It's kind of a relief, but I usually feel worse after I cry.

 

Absolutely. I feel like it's an emotional cleansing, and I always feel so much better after a good cry.

 

I cried at the end of Forrest Gump and when my mother died. My emotional outlet was to get drunk and brawl.

 

yes of course, we all, or so i suspect, do. it's one of those things though, that like other bodily functions, is usually best done in private. although there have been cultural customs of doing it publicly as well. it is even possible we would be all better of if the dominant culture now did so. i'm a poor one to judge that though. just a speculation of possibility.

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I havent cried for a very long time.

I cant really even remember the last time I did, actually. I havent thought about it.

If I did cry it would be in private, in my bedroom or something. I dont like crying at all and afterwards I just go to sleep. Whether I'm tired or not.

 

I agree. Anybody who says differently is either disingenuous or holds in their pain, though I'd prefer the former, since I do not trust bottlers of emotion. Besides, automatons are boring.

 

Yea, it's just one of those things... Have you ever seen the Dane Cook skit about that... haha I love him.

 

lol, I'm with ya on that one

 

There are certain songs that I listen to and I start to cry, because they are songs I listened to at the times of friends or people I knews death. It just sets me off I guess.