Are you brave enough to show your tears?

Question

What circumstances make you cry?
This detail is especially important for men to reply.

These are ALL such great answers.
I was really touched.
In fact I think this the first time for as long as I have been here on Q&A that I have seen such REAL answers from everyone.
And it is unreal how everyone exposed the soft sides of their beings and showed the wonderful angle of a human.
The angle, which in a way makes him diffferent from all other animals.
His ability to feel...not only from each of his senses but from deep within his mind, heart and soul.
I don't know which answer to pick as best.
So, I will keep on reading these answers for a while longer, in hope that time will allow me to to make the best decision for chosing the best answer.

Answer 1

are you kidding I'm a crying fool!i cry when i cant get a parking space when the cops pull me over for speeding.when I'm late for work..when someone get eliminated on ameracas top model.but never in front of my lady.no no no.

Answer 2

Yes. I consider crying as vital to health as laughing. Significantly, when I'm becoming depressed it's when I lose the ability to cry that I get really concerned. Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, what makes me cry the most and most easily is witnessing an act of human kindness which didn't need to be done and required the doer "going out of his/her way" and was done simply because the doer chose to do it. Particularly when the person on the receiving end is a stranger. Other things that make me cry are sight or knowledge of a child hurting or deserted in any of the various ways one can be deserted, and seeing someone who has tried his/her best to be accepted by the peer group, done everything one could possibly expect of a fellow human, and still end up rejected. I also cry when I'm aiming for the head of a nail with a hammer and hit my thumb instead. And I don't particularly give a flying fig who sees me cry.

Later:

I'm crying right now. Can you tell? When did that defunct magazine arise from the dead and where are the wooden stakes when you need one? How long have I been asleep?

Answer 3

Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K.626 - part III:f "Lacrimosa" was, in fact, inspired by one of my "past lives"! LOL :-) ... Men might not always be courageous enough to let their emotions roll down their faces (as you are implicitly suggesting/assuming here), but more often than not it's their tragic experiences and/or conducts that bring women to tears. The hunting cave men didn't have much use for tears. Their women and offspring on the other hand must have used it as a great subliminal weapon to kick their lazy butts into action! I suppose you can say we have been environmentally conditioned to dance to a different tune. "Unfortunately", the same tune has begun to catch up with women too - not being able to express our emotions adequately is starting to become a pandemic outbreak.

Answer 4

Tears an important means of communication. It could signify both happiness and sorrow. Like saying aloha. It is an outlet for myriads of emotions... disappointment, anger, frustration, ecstacy, many more.

So if I tear up at a parent funeral, a sister's wedding, winning a girl's love, etcetera. It has nothing to do with sissyness, being less macho, but more about being in tune with yourself. I read somewhere Alexander the Great cried when he thought there is no more world to conquer.

Answer 5

I don't think crying is a fact of weakness. I can cry when I hear music that stirs my heart strings. I can cry when I see misery, especially done to children, on t.v. I am an emotional person and tears come quite easily and I am not ashamed over it. When I feel proud, I can cry too. There are lots of reasons to feel overwhelmed by events which quite often result in tears.

Answer 6

You make a rather large assumption; that men are all the same in there affective response. The circumstances that would make me cry may be quite varied from the circumstances you are " angling " for. I wonder if psychopaths cry?

Answer 7

I cried watching Aladdin!!!
I cry reading the kids book called Forever for Always, by Robert Munch.
I cry when I see kids in a Christmas concert,they are so cute, innocent and small.
I cry while watching the the movie Titanic again and again.

Answer 8

I cried when I witnessed a terminally ill, seven year old boy telling his parents not to be sad, while having a great big smile on his face. I knew as he smiled that he was in great pain. He died 10 days later. I still cry when I think of him.

Answer 9

I cry usually out of fustration, when I cannot explain myself acurately, when adults think they know what I am thinking, and when the adults act stupid and think i'm stupid and maby I am but some things are just so obcvious and in front of their noses that I could cry when I see how ignorant they are. Ignore- ant. As in ignoring what is right there, in their face. but they probaly are so used to it, its no longer shocking to them.

Answer 10

I am still learning it
but it is much better than before
and beside, I try to give myself time to cry when I feel so