 thisnamecantbetaken says: I'm the type of person who can laugh and/or cry at just about anything. It makes me happy to do both. Sometimes people can say to me, "Oh, don't cry" but I most often feel and say "Oh don't worry, it's a good cry" and this article explains why it always apparently feels so good afterwards doing either. We have emotions and responses to them for a reason. Use them and we may just live longer, healthier and happier lives because of it!  First let me say, I am glad to see you are back and posting again. This Name, I missed your wit & quotations. This is a great post. When I worked Hospice, I spent a good deal of time giving people "permission" to cry. Aww, thank you so much kkc and it feels real good to be back and clipping again and it's lovely to see you again too! I've been on vacation and it's been just absolutely fabulous, but being offline is almost like having both hands cut off! Ugh! Haha! People should cry (and laugh!) waaay more often than they do though. I find both to be incredibly stress relieving. I can even cry over silly commercials, a wonderful memory, a beautiful sunset or sometimes 'just because'. I wish there wasn't such a taboo about tearing up and it is so sad that people feel they should need to ask permission to cry or feel they have to apologise or be embarrassed for doing so. People who can cry just seem... Thisname... my bladder is situated behind my eyeballs which is such an embarrassment at times. I often wish I were an emotionally indifferent person, as I think their lives are simpler and certainly a great deal less painful. I think I care too much and therein lies the source of much sadness and stress "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter". (Nietzsche) "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. (W Hazlitt) Humour ... is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (James Thurber) I'm the same way, michelle and TN...laugh and tear up easily over little things. I can get emotional about a stranger's story.  TNCBT I am just passing by here right now to say BIG HELLO to you! Laughing and crying are like releasing pressure that builds up when we struck by something that moves us, sometimes profoundly. The practice of resisting, as with a 'stiff upper lip', or a 'poker face', can have the same effect as tightening the valve that releases the pressure. The inability to express emotion is something that excludes an important part of our humanity. When taken to extremes, this can both deny that fact, and result in social, and emotional isolation. People can laugh and cry on cue, but their act can wear thin when it is seen to have no foundation. Talk is cheap, but when we laugh or cry we are communicating in a way that everyone can understand. This understanding has ...  pokkets, I always look forward to reading your comments. You give me more to think about. You are definitely an asset to the Clipmarks community. Speaking of Clipmarks and emotions... I have a clip for all you guys. Luv ya! Me too I work at a Hospice also, but have not been able to do so lately because I have had extensive oral surgery. I am in great pain and very swollen and black and blue. But I know it will end, can't wait. They are allowing me to do volunteer newsletter from home. I really need clips like this, keep posting, it really helps. I hope you get well soon, cinjav. Merry Christmas! |
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