on my way back to diliman after the christmas and new year vacation..i just feel like crying..i don't know the reason..but my emotions seems to be different..is it because of where i'm going to or because of what i left back..i can't tell..and the problem is i can't..maybe i forgot to..i want to shed some tears..but how do you do it..i even can't remember the last time..it's not that i'm suppresing that side of my personality..maybe i'm not that type..drama is not a piscean's way of coping i guess..i admit the escapist persona i became..how do actors do it..i have no talent for that..i just wonder..
According to wiki:
"To cry is to shed tears as a response to an emotional state in humans. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures". The medical term for this is to lacrimate, which also refers to non-emotional shedding of "tears".
A neuronal connection between the lacrimal gland (tear duct) and the areas of the human brain involved with emotion was established. No other animals are thought to produce tears in response to emotional states, although this is disputed by some scientists.
According to a study of over 300 adults, on average, men cry once every month, and women cry at least five times per month, especially before and during the menstrual cycle, when crying can increase up to 5 times the normal rate, often without obvious reasons (such as depression or sadness). In many cultures, it is more socially acceptable for women and children to cry than with men.
Tears produced during emotional crying have a chemical composition which differs from other types of tear: they contain significantly greater quantities of hormones prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, Leu-enkephalin and the elements potassium and manganese.
Crying is often considered to be the opposite of laughing."
if that's the truth..maybe i'm abnormal when it comes to this aspect..maybe i should learn how to..i need to be more expressive of what i feel sometimes..that way i could understand more myself..what i want and not..i should be less insensitive maybe..or maybe culture influences unconsciously dominates..
but right now..i feel better that i have written something about crying..maybe writing is a form of tears for me..for me to feel better..the secretomotor thing maybe is not that dominant..but i would be glad that if that time comes..if crying comes my way..i know it's part of being human..it's normal..i should be afraid if not..people deserve to be happy but happiness maybe is best felt when you have experienced the other side of it..
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crying... in tagalog, it is "pag-iyak" or is it "pagluha"; the former connotes that it has something to do with emotion either due to depression or immensed happiness (i.e. "tears of joy" or luha ng kagalakan) or otherwise intense feelings; the latter is the mechanical flowing or dropping of tears (i.e. may be due to irritation or sore eyes, etc)... needless to say, in this blog, you were dealing with the former... so, do you think you are not normal just because you can't cry hard enough? and me, crying makes me a normal person hehe... maybe you're not a "mababaw-ang-luha" kind of person, but that does not mean you're less than normal...do you really want to cry? i'm telling you, the process is hard (at least in my case),you'll have colds even if you have not it, but in the end, it's worth it, you'll feel lighter inside ("mawawala ang bigat ng kalooban")... maybe we should try it sometimes,papaiyakin natin ang isa't isa.. we'll call it "crying theraphy session" hehe... sige na nga, you cry in writing na nga lang...
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