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05-19-2016 01:02 AM
Tears may be an emotional release, but I don't find them healing.
05-19-2016 01:34 AM
05-19-2016 01:46 AM
I have a framed sign in my bathroom that says
the cure for anything
is saltwater:
sweat, tears or the sea.
- isak dinesen
05-19-2016 11:26 AM
I find myself tearing up almost every morning these days. I cannot awaken and just get up, as I have to take my meds and lie there for at least an hour. That's when all the losses pile up and I feel the tears spilling. I almost feel I need to do that in order to face the day. I do it quietly and only when I am alone.
When my beloved sister died almost five years ago (I can't believe it has been that long), it was on my "off" day . . . we had been going up, a two hour ride, every other day. I wanted to be there to hold her at the end and I wasn't. As one daughter called me to tell me she was gone, my other daughter was crashing through the front door. I was making animal sounds that I've never heard coming out of me before. I had no control over it. That wasn't crying, that was howling like a wounded animal in the woods.
However, I do agree that weeping (tearing up) does release a lot of tension and is helpful most of the time.
05-19-2016 04:03 PM
@pugvette74 wrote:I have a framed sign in my bathroom that says
the cure for anything
is saltwater:
sweat, tears or the sea.
- isak dinesen
I like that quotation a lot. It is from Danish author, Karen Blixen, using one of her several psuedonyms. She had a fascinating life and certainly knew a lot about tears. One of her most famous works was her autobiograhical book, Out of Africa, later made into that luscious movie. I'm a huge fan of hers.
05-20-2016 11:23 AM
Not really. The last time I cried was when I watched the vet end my cats life last month.
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I get angry and swear. My husband passed away this year and all I could think of why were you so stubborn and not try to take care of yourself. You brought this on yourself.
05-20-2016 12:16 PM - edited 05-20-2016 12:20 PM
I have always been a very tender-hearted, sensitive person, and can tear up in an instant over the least little thing, even hymns in church, patriotic music, or a marching band playing in a parade. Releasing a few tears often makes me feel much better, but it basically depends on what is on my mind at the time. I think I cry less as I get older, and feel a lot of that is due to realizing that the maternal side of my family were heavy grievers, which influenced me far more than I realized.
I do not cry when I visit my dads grave, or any other family members graves, as I am at peace with their deaths.
05-20-2016 02:03 PM
@halfpint1 wrote:Not really. The last time I cried was when I watched the vet end my cats life last month.
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I get angry and swear. My husband passed away this year and all I could think of why were you so stubborn and not try to take care of yourself. You brought this on yourself.
@halfpint1
I am sorry for your loss.
I always try to tell myself, they did the best they could do, at that time.
05-20-2016 02:05 PM
If the eye had no tears the soul would have no rainbows.
05-20-2016 02:08 PM
@RedTop wrote:I have always been a very tender-hearted, sensitive person, and can tear up in an instant over the least little thing, even hymns in church, patriotic music, or a marching band playing in a parade. Releasing a few tears often makes me feel much better, but it basically depends on what is on my mind at the time. I think I cry less as I get older, and feel a lot of that is due to realizing that the maternal side of my family were heavy grievers, which influenced me far more than I realized.
I do not cry when I visit my dads grave, or any other family members graves, as I am at peace with their deaths.
Thank you, for your words, I too am finding I am at peace... I guess visiting my mothers grave for the first time after two years, is always the hardest.
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