I thought of those moments, that happened from time to time…when you wish you can curl somewhere with a pack of tissues and just cry a little while for anything you can think of. This must be a very girly thing. Girls cry often. They don’t need a reason. We can cry just because we feel blue, or we feel lonely, or irrelevant or not needed…we cry just for the reason we are girls.
So I’m inviting all the girls who feel like crying to my place for a little bit of Cry-Time. Sometimes we don’t need to tell others the reason, sometimes we don’t want anybody to comfort us, really. We just want to cry it out. Tears as the means of letting go of your worries, yearnings, for unhappened miracles, for the wishes that didn’t come true. Tears for the unfairness that happened, of misjudgement being done, for possible and impossible dreams that disappeared…for those who cared too much and for those who didn’t care at all…tears for being unfortunate to be born a woman and see the world in special women’s way, which no man can understand. But we do, don’t we? We do understand that when woman cries, she does it for a reason. Women’s tears never irrelevant. So come and cry with me even if just “for the company”. There is always extra box of tissues.
*University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have isolated two important chemicals, leucine-enkephalin and prolactin, in emotionally shed tears. The researchers say that leucine-enkephalin may be an endorphin, one of the natural pain relievers released by the brain in response to stress. William Frey, Ph.D., a biochemist and the leader of the research team, suspects that tears cleanse the body of substances that accumulate under stress. In other words, crying seems to be an appropriate way to respond to stress. Conversely, to resist crying may be harmful to your health. It's possible that men develop more stress-related illness because they don't cry as freely as women do.
So if you feel like crying, let the tears flow.
So I’m inviting all the girls who feel like crying to my place for a little bit of Cry-Time. Sometimes we don’t need to tell others the reason, sometimes we don’t want anybody to comfort us, really. We just want to cry it out. Tears as the means of letting go of your worries, yearnings, for unhappened miracles, for the wishes that didn’t come true. Tears for the unfairness that happened, of misjudgement being done, for possible and impossible dreams that disappeared…for those who cared too much and for those who didn’t care at all…tears for being unfortunate to be born a woman and see the world in special women’s way, which no man can understand. But we do, don’t we? We do understand that when woman cries, she does it for a reason. Women’s tears never irrelevant. So come and cry with me even if just “for the company”. There is always extra box of tissues.
*University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have isolated two important chemicals, leucine-enkephalin and prolactin, in emotionally shed tears. The researchers say that leucine-enkephalin may be an endorphin, one of the natural pain relievers released by the brain in response to stress. William Frey, Ph.D., a biochemist and the leader of the research team, suspects that tears cleanse the body of substances that accumulate under stress. In other words, crying seems to be an appropriate way to respond to stress. Conversely, to resist crying may be harmful to your health. It's possible that men develop more stress-related illness because they don't cry as freely as women do.
So if you feel like crying, let the tears flow.