Enjoy your tears as you enjoy your laughter

We grow up thinking that we must not cry because it makes us look weak, it is seen as a lack of self-control, and we come to think that crying is bad. I’m not a fan of crying in public because I think it’s a pretty intimate activity, but I’m a firm defender of crying once in a while in the privacy of your own home when you feel like it.

Wouldn’t it be stupid to prevent laughter when something is funny? Why wouldn’t I cry when something is sad? Maybe it’s a film, maybe it’s some news I’ve heard, maybe it’s a song, maybe there’s no trigger at all and I just feel sad, so I cry for as long as I need to and when I don’t feel like crying anymore I stop and I feel relaxed and refreshed just as I feel after a good laugh.