February 9, 2005

• A Good Cry

  
  

  Some women, like me, are naturally emotional creatures.  We have quick instincts, feel things with the heart, enjoy a good cry, like to laugh till our stomach hurts.  It makes us feel alive to have real feelings and to acknowledge them.  (I can admit at some intervals I can cry daily.)  Some men don't know what to do about this and may get scared, turned off, run away.  But that's when fantabulous girlfriends are there to the rescue. They can be a listening ear, waiting patiently until she is ready to share her mind, be on her side, but also ready to share other viewpoints and particularly that of God's as well.  Crying can be a compassionate cry, crying for someone else.  It can be guilty cry of embarrassment.  It can be a release of frustration.  It can be emotional or physical pain.  It can be feeling loss.  It can be crying of joy, which I don't fully understand and have yet to experience.  It can be crying in the movie theater over a sappy story. 

  
  

  It can also be a bonding cry because it can be the intro to a sharing of the heart.  When you can be that vulnerable in front of someone else, no matter how close you are to them already, a good cry together can bring you much closer.  My oppa told me this in college and asked if i've cried with my close girlfriends.  I told him I've cried in front of them but we've never cried together at the same time.  He said we have to cry together.  It was an interesting new idea and i've never forgot it since then.  When was the last time you cried?    

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