What would make a grownup cry?

Question

What is a typical issue that would make a grown person shed a tear or two?

Answer 1

An adult can cry for any of the reasons already cited by your respondents. All are normal reactions for human beings of any age. But, I suspect that you're seeking deeper insight. So here goes:

1. A truly empathetic adult will shed a tear at viewing a child with a bald head in a cancer ward. This is especially true if the prognosis in not good, and the adult knows that the child will die.

2. Watching our young men and women being shipped off to Iraq, and knowing that some of them won't come back, unless they're in a body bag. The senseless death of our youth, even those whom one doesn't personally know, is a tragedy that a "feeling" person just can't tolereate.

3. Facing the inevitability of one's own death, and KNOWING that one hasn't done anything significant in life. This includes adequately preparing one's own child for the reality of life. The late psychologist Erik Erikson called the process of preparing the next generation to do well "generativity." His work showed that those who felt that they had contributed in some way to the next generation could face their own deaths with dignity; those who did not have this feeling of accomplishment, could not face the fact of mortality.

4. Watching young people destroy their lives by doing things that seem appropriate to them, but -- in retrospect -- will prove to be bad choices. This includes early marriage, out-of-wedlock births, failure to learn respect for one's spouse, committing crimes that will put them in prison (and, therefore, ruin their future prospects in life), and destroying their healthy bodies with drugs, alcohol, and scarification.

5. And... knowing that their advice, based on many years of mistakes and introspection, will be ignored because they are old, and don't understand the needs of young people.


We remember every emotion. That includes the ABSOLUTE feeling that THEY (people who give this kind of advice) are so old fashioned that they can't understand how things are now.


Technology changes, social problems are different, gang life has always been important to the less fortunate and the too fortunate, and human emotion is fixed in our DNA.

Answer 2

1. Pain
2. Defeat
3. Grief
4. Rage
5. Joy
6. Trauma
7. Rejection
8. Relief
9. Sex
10. Loneliness
11. Humiliation
12. Victory
13. Beauty

A typical issue that would make a grownup cry is when her children don't phone her on her birthday.

Answer 3

The answer would very much depend on the individual, when you say 'grown up "do you mean psychologically or psychically, there can be a huge difference ....also the degree of emotion placed on the issue....some would laugh if they lost all their money others cry very deeply about the same event for example, ....the degree of maturity and importance of the object would play a big roll......

Answer 4

Grownups often cry when:

1) One of their children, or spouse dies.
2) Their children are crying because they are hungry, and you can't afford to buy them any food.
3) An adult looses his/her job, and doesn't expect to have the money to keep his/her kids from living under a bridge.
4) Severe depression.

Answer 5

For a male probably knowing that they can't take care of their family. For a female probably death or serious, perhaps fatal, injury of a child or young one. Those are the main ones but there are smaller ones that affect different people in different ways depending on the personality.

Answer 6

life.

i have a very hard time drawing the line between what i dream and what is real, i'm not even sure i am awake right now, seriously.

it really scares the hell out of me, i'm afraid i'm in a coma, or that i'm already dead. i'm afraid that nothing in my world is real, and that soon enough it will all become apparent that one of these is true.

just an example of the reason i cry

Answer 7

Losing a loved one

Answer 8

gazing my uncle bypass away. he replaced into somebody very close and extremely specific to me. he had maximum cancers which started inflicting blood clots and strokes. gazing somebody that replaced into very vibrant lose the skill to communicate to stroll or do something. preserving his hand as he took his final breath. listening to the crying of his youthful little ones while mommy had to return in and tell them daddy replaced into long gone. even now i won't be able to hold lower back the tears in simple terms thinking approximately it.

Answer 9

Being audited by the I.R S. !!! , or finding out thier 15 yr old daughter got knocked up by another punk kid at school !!

Answer 10

A loss of a child or loved one.