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Weeping, crying and stuff like that
When reading "A series of unfortunate events. The bad beginning" written by Lemony Snicket I've come across one thought that I totally agree with and that I'd like to speak about. "Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit". But why is it so? I'll try to analyse it.
By the way, do you know what the difference between "crying" and "weeping" is. Crying is both: vocalization (shouting, screaming, calling) and weeping. And weeping is "the shedding of tears from an emotional stimulus". The vocal component of crying is seen both in animals and in men but only humans can weep. One virtue, however, is that, whether crying or weeping is used as a summary label, crying can mean watery eyes; weeping can mean sobbing. Several studies have surveyed the sorts of occasions when adults are likely to cry or the affects being experienced at the time. There is a strong resemblance between the lists produced despite differences in procedure and in the amount of detail reported. Broadly speaking, the death of close friends or relatives and other events of separation, loss of personal relationships predominate in reports of crying, but there are also many episodes of tearfulness involving sympathy for friends and empathy with people seen in movies or on TV. Crying also occurs for more positive-seeming events such as for happiness, weddings, religious experience and aesthetic reactions. Some attempts have been made to identify categories among this apparent diversity. Borgquist distinguished crying for grief or sadness, for anger and for joy. Under grief he included homesickness, remorse, melancholy, or the 'blues'. Crying for joy included tears of gratitude, of tender emotion and for 'feelings of admiration and for the sublime'; examples given were weeping at religious meetings or at the reunion with friends. So, people cry of different reasons being either happy or depressed, either strong or weak. Why do we cry? My answer is: to relieve strong emotions, to ease your life. And what would answer you? Why do people cry? And why does one feel better after crying even if the circumstances haven't changed?![l]
Sometimes crying only complicate everything. And it's important to control yourself not to become too hysterical.(But unfortunately, I'm very emotional and it's sometimes difficult for me to supress tears)
Oh... really.. i've never thought that there is a difference between crying and weeping... It was a surprise for me, thanks for making me cleverer but still, as I remember quite the same theme was in our forum section and.. well.. my thoughts hasn't changed)) But if I try to be more "tolerant", I'll say: "People cry and weep when they feel weak and if it makes them stronger, so, why not cry a little?"
