Do you think there are people who don't cry?
By mokkka
@mokkka (881)
Bulgaria
January 13, 2012 6:12am CST
I live opposite a church and today I saw my first boyfriend being at his mother's funeral. This was a tough guy who used to say nothing can make him cry and nothing was so important that deserves tears. When I saw him today I recalled his words and found out that nobody is so strong as not to care about a death relative. His face was full of terror and I felt so pity seing him that week. Do you know somebody who has never cried?
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13 responses
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
13 Jan 12
Yes it is possible not to cry although it doesn't mean you don't feel sad. Some people cry about nothing or everything, others never cry.
I found out already at a young age that crying doesn't help, it's no relieve so useless to me.
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@mokkka (881)
• Bulgaria
13 Jan 12
Do you want to say that you don't cry? How do you mean it is no relieve?Don't you feel depressed as something is stuck on your throat if you are angry and don't start crying?At least that is what happens to me.I hate shouting so when I am angry this apple just closes my throat and at the moment I try to say something I start crying.
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@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
14 Jan 12
I agree with mokkka and experience the same thing when I am angry, which just makes me angrier. WakeUpKitty probably gets angry when they feel tears threatening and probably hides to cry alone where no one can see them when they just can't hold it in. In this discussion though it seems that everyone has forgotten that there is another kind of tear to be shed. TEARS OF JOY! Like when your so happy the emotion just wells up in you and just leaks out as tears? Like the birth of a child, that same child graduating or having a child of their own, sentimental milestones that you will treasure forever are often accompanied by tears too.
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@tonifalade (6)
• Nigeria
14 Jan 12
Mokka, this is an interesting one, but i must tell you that everyone cries at some point in life, the difference is just that some cry in the open, while others bottle it up and prefer to do it in the closet.
People like that are misunderstood to be stone cold and hard, but the truth is that they have just only mastered to hold back the tears and blow up in the closet!!!
@rencarl (620)
• Philippines
14 Jan 12
hello my friend. we men always say that guys do not cry. the fact is, we all cry. we just don't let it show. we cry when we are at our solitary place. our ego tells us not to cry because that is a sign of weakness. and add to that, all individuals cry. it is how our physiology was created. and again, we just don't let it show.
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@AmourHelen (136)
• United States
14 Jan 12
Everyone cries. It's normal for us to cry and there's nothing bad about crying. I normally don't cry in front of people because I don't like showing it. But at a situation like that, you can't hold back the tears.
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@arjunm (439)
• India
14 Jan 12
Man can't live without fear,love,romance,laugh and also cry.because it is a nature of human beings.so,if you think that a rough and tough person who would never cry in his past life then you are totally wrong.so, i think no man can live without single crying.
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@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
14 Jan 12
There are people who are completely cut off from their emotions who can't access them fully they are called clinically 'alexithymic' (experiencing difficulty identifying and describing emotions)
Then there are people who have undeveloped tear ducts who are physically unable to cry.
There are several other conditions that affect a person's ability to cry so my answer to your question would be yes, there are people who don't cry. It is unhealthy not to cry and that is why people look upon such a disability as being rare and mind boggling. Who can imagine if they are healthy and able, and have been all their lives, not being able to release and shed tears when in emotional or even physical pain?
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Oct 12
hi mokkka no as I think we all have times when we jusgt have tol c r y as itgs a release from all the emotional pain of deagtjs and tragedies. we may not do it where anyone can see us but we will
all do it a few times at least its a release for emotions that
otherwise could tear us apart emotionally.
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@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
13 Jan 12
none I haven't seen anyone who have not cried. I think crying does not make one weak as it is a mean of expressing and releasing emotion. I must admit that I am a cry lady because I easily cry on things and events that touch my emotions.
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@sjvg1976 (41281)
• Delhi, India
14 Jan 12
Hello Mokkka,
I have seen many people who say that they don't cry but i think they do lie because we are humans and hardly there is one even the strongest one who don't cry when they are hurt. May be they cry when they are alone and never show that they cry out.
I am strong and even difficult times too don't let me feel upset but then too i cry when i am deeply hurt.
May be your BF also would have cried and did not let you know.But if he seriously did not cry then he must so as to release pain stored in heart that will make him feel light.
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
13 Jan 12
I think everyone cries at one point or another in their life. They might not want to tell anyone that or let anyone see that but they do. We all cry sometimes no matter how strong we are...
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@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
13 Jan 12
I think everybody is crying . One time my husband told me that he is not crying just for a girl but one time when there was a dispute between us,he cried. Maybe other people saying that they are not crying because they just to show to others that they can handle all the situation without the help of others. When someone say that they don't cry,i don't believe them.
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@vt689586 (584)
• India
13 Jan 12
yes i know one that has no room for tears in their eyes,and i know him very well,and that person is my younger brother,he is only 1 year younger than me we share all of things to each-other. but from the childhood i never ever seen him to drop a single tear from his life.although he are most of time in trouble but never cried for anything,.he was not crying even in situation when his sole-mate left him alone with out any reason.he discuss all thing but never cried.
so i can say that in the world there are different kinds of people.and all of them are unique
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