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Crying is an emotional release. I tend to have trouble stopping myself from crying when I feel strongly enough about something. I don't like to cry in front of people if I can help it. Sometimes I can't. It depends on who is the onlooker. I don't see it as a sign of weakness but I do see it as something that instantly makes you more exposed, or vulnerable. That's ok if you can trust the person who you're doing it in front of. Sometimes crying can be a good way of letting someone know you actually do care about something, but that are crap at expressing otherwise.
I find crying a good way of letting out stress, anxiety, pain, sadness, and pent up anger. It can also be revealing to yourself if you feel the need to cry about something you didn't realise meant that much to you.
Sometimes I feel teary if I see or hear something beautiful or inspiring. Sometimes I'm overly sensitive to things.
I don't often sob cry, but when I do I feel drained after. But sometimes it's just pain that needs to come out.
I think crying is better than holding things in all the time. That just eats away at you.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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