What's with crying?
“Don’t be so weak, boys don’t cry”
Photographer: Netra Davar
...sounds familiar?
Crying for centuries now has been equated with emotional vulnerability and people who cry are treated in an inferior way. Why so? Why is crying considered to be an implication of weakness?
Let me define crying, in my language or perspective, "it is the overflow of too many emotions or of pressure expressed in biological terms in the form of water from the eyes". When we cry we let out the heap of emotions and pressure that occupy us. Crying makes our mind and brain lighter and clearer. It surely must be having countless of other biological benefits too.
Crying helps us in forgetting all our miseries and pain. I would like to compare it to the excretion of waste from our body, like it helps us in maintaining a healthy body; it helps us in maintaining a healthy mind and soul. Physical waste is to be expelled at regular intervals, likewise emotional waste must be expelled whenever needed to. We must cry whenever we feel like because if we don’t, then we face internal stifling and discomfort. This discomfort then comes out in the form of anger, frustration and even violence.
Many women and girls cry easily. It is hence a stereotype that crying is for the "weaker" sex. But that also might be the reason why they are more matured and pragmatic than the other sex.
I believe everyone must feel comfortable to cry out whenever they want to. So cry it out when you feel like simply because crying helps.
