Do you ever cry about some things?

Question

Every now and then, when I am watching the news on television, I cover my eyes, my face and scream. Not aloud, but silently. The inhumanity of humanity is evident, buckets of blood spaced evenly between commercials espousing various products, that four out of five dentists recommend a certain toothpaste, then back, to people jumping from the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center. I cry, and I don't deny it. I tear up when I see that I am alone, most of the time that I know, when I read the obituaries of the "Today's Casualty List" of our brothers, husbands, wives, daughters who died THIS DAY in Iraq. Just names, some guy from Killeen, Texas, or maybe some chick from Broadhurst. Who cares? I grew up during the Vietnam war, and there were 58,000 who cares. Well ,I care. And I if I weep for them, maybe you will think I am just an emotional kind of guy, but, if it were you in Iraq, would you want me to love you? Even though I don't know you? Well, I sometimes cover my face, my eyes. And cry

yeah, persephone, it's a rough day, thankx for reminding me to "just be cool"

Answer 1

There was a report on Iraq civilian casualties on CNN about two years ago. It included footage of a boy about my son's age who just had his face blown off when a U.S. bomb hit his house. I cried. The sound of his screaming and the image of the bloody towel covering up what was left of his head still haunts me. I don't watch CNN reports about Iraq anymore.

Answer 2

I do cry at the horrors. Especially the way war or even general unkindness affects kids. I was moved by many of the responses here, and I so welcome Pangel's suggestion to take the hands away. We do the world a gift by showing how the horrors hurt us.

I personally think it's an obscenity that the press is not allowed to show pictures of the coffins of the boys and girls coming home dead from Iraq. We need to know what war really is.

There is another time I cry, though. It happens sometimes when I engage in meditation -- especially when I'm on an intensive Zen retreat. My mind gets quietly awake. My heart comes silently alive. And I see it ... in utter simplicity and a kind of obvious sobriety ... there is a miracle going on, there really is, and it's the fact that anything at all is here.

It's so beautiful and so simple it breaks my heart open. And it gives me some hope.

If we can just touch the living truth of what an unspeakable treasure it is to be in this world ... things can start to heal ...
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Answer 3

Very sensitive and deep, but that is a good thing.
You have heart and compassion which isn't really heard of nowadays.
I used to cry all the time, but, i got to a point in my life when i just gave up.
I lost someone i truely loved and cared about on 9/11 and i think that was my breaking point that i can no longer cry.
I cry when i'm really really stressed out which is rare.
I cried at each of my daughters births.
I had my last daughter 15 weeks ago so that was the last time i cried.
I refuse to watch the news anymore.
I know what is happening in the world. I know people are dying and getting killed, but i have to put my focus and emotions into raising my 3 girls who are 3, 19 months and 15 weeks.
If i become and emotional wreck or dwell on todays events, i couldn't teach them the good things that happen in the world.
I try to keep my focus on positive things because depsite the tragedy in the world, there is also alot of good.
I think your honesty and heart is beautiful, i really do.
When i see or hear of a child being killed/hurt, it tears my heart.
I am a very good mother, very nurturing and i just want to grab those little angels and hug them tightly and tell them "i may not know you, but i love you"
Cause, in today's society that is deemed crazy and unacceptable!
I see our troops going of to an unjust war and i feel sorrow for the families left behind.
But i just can't cry anymore.

((((hugs))))

Answer 4

Wow, I cry at the Twin Towers (I'm not American but it still brings tears to my eyes). I cry with this Iraq stuff going on because I have a friend out there and I keep thinking it's going to be him and it's just such a stupid, pointless war and too many people are dying for it. I think thats about it, if I think about things more I'm sure I would be a lot more weepy but I avoid things I don't like. Its a self preservation thing.

Answer 5

Yes, the TV news can make you cry, especially when they treat it so cavalierly. Sixty second report on the tragedy that changed hundreds of lives. Now back to the commercials, and here's the sports.

See why I don't have a TV?

But lots of things about the world make me cry, and even more make me mad! Three movies I recently bought on DVD may tell you what I mean: (1) "Obsession," about how little kids in Iraq are being programmed to become suicide bombers for Allah; (2) "Jesus Camp," about how little kids in American are being programmed to spend their lives in ignorance and evangelizing total strangers to join them; (3) "An Inconvenient Truth," about how nobody seems to care very much that there may not be a habitable world for those little kids to grow up in, so why not let them bomb each other or become "martyrs?"

Al Gore, who used to annoy the heck out of me because of his political party, has done this world a major service in preparing such an intelligent, well-documented presentation about how we absolutely MUST reduce carbon dioxide emissions to survive. And who pays attention?

First I cry, then I get mad. Then I start looking at what I can do to change things.

Answer 6

me too, when i hear about genocide, and the mistreatment of others.

but one thing, is that i want to help prevent another genocide, ---- in Iraq, if the US troops pull out, the Iranian insurgents will over throw the government and slaughter all of the Sunni Muslims, - Genocide,- millions dead.

we shouldn't have gone there, but now that we destabilized the government we have to restabilize it.

if i were in iraq, i wouldnt really care, theres nothing love could do to protect me,+ I'm a guy.

Boom!

did you ever watch blood diomond?
the part where the rebels take over the city and kill all of the people?
well thats what the rebel uprising would be like in iraq, just BIGGER,..ALLOT BIGGER! and they would be arab,- not black.

Answer 7

I cried from small to a little age, but now I am just 21 and no cry for anything. Believe me I said the truth.

Answer 8

My friend, you know me, and you know I also weep for those who are dying. There is nothing I can do to stop myself from feeling such deep sadness. If everyone on earth just ignored the suffering going on, I can't think of how much worse the world would be than it is. This world needs your compassion, it is truly good. Take care of yourself. L.

Answer 9

Wow, I thought I was the only one who did that!

Some days I can't even watch the news. They tell you a story about some horrible natural disaster or plane crash that killed hundreds or thousands of my brothers and sisters, and then casually switch to some commercial with singing bunnies and dancing flowers. I have to turn it off -- I honestly can't take it some days.

As for crying, I'm not a good answerer about that: I tend to get dewy-eyed even at corny coffee commercials where the father and son reunite over a steaming hot cup of Folgers.

James knows this and never fails to give me grief about it. :)

Answer 10

Oh, Honey, you most certainly are NOT alone!

The outpouring of love and understanding here should help you see that a few of us do realize the horror - the pointlessness- and are doing our small part to fix it. Perhaps, just perhaps, we will make a tiny difference.

I'm not from the same generation you are speaking of, and so I can't fully understand what you are going through... but I have my own version of your pain, and I'm here for you. Whether you need/want us to be here or not, we are ALL here for you.