Monday, June 29, 2009

What are tears?

The question is what are tears and why do we cry?

The simple answer is when we get physically hurt.

But tears can also flow when we hurt inside. We can also cry when we feel helpless; helpless to change how things are; helpless to help a loved one when they are dying of an incurable disease; helpless to see a loved one in pain and anguish.

We also cry when we feel; feel other people's pain and suffering; feel when people die of hunger and thirst; feel when people find no other way out then ending their lives and relieving themselves of abject poverty, abuse and helplessness.

Its okay to cry and its okay to feel! It just shows that we are human!

3 comments:

ReeBz said...

we also cry when we are excited and happy..
we do not cry only when we are physically hurt.Emotions play a vital role.
happiness and sorrows both will make a normal man cry.
i do nt know how much of the following research is true, but i read somewhere if you cry cause of happiness then the first tear will roll down from the right eye and the vise versa.

Zarin said...

You are right, I did mention the sorrow and the helplessness but the most beautiful tears are when happiness makes you cry.

Being a sensitive soul, I am the sort of person who cries a lot when I watch movies. There was this time when I started crying even after watching an advertisement.

I was rather sad when I wrote this post hence left out the happiness part.

When do you cry ReeBz?

ReeBz said...

I'm also a very sensitive person but i shed my tears only for the "truth".I dont cry until and unless the stimuli i.e drama,report,ad is based on the "Truth".

As far as tears of happiness are concerned,lol i cried only once when i found out that i'm also one of the position holders of city khi in 2006:)