Tears of freedom.

The art of crying is very complex.

Only animals can enjoy crocodile tears. Humans seem to be pushed into crying through emotions or tensions. Stress instances can be so numerous that they can hardly be all fitted in this ‘valley of tears,’ our home.

Strangely enough even laughter can induce tears. Therefore, tears are not necessarily the outcome of negative situations. But, as a general rule all seem to associate crying with sadness, as a result of sickness, bereavements, public or family mourning, breaking off of intimate relationships and calamities.

Again, crying is a most common and natural occurance with infants, toddlers and fairly older saplings. In the case of very small children, it may be safe to state that they hardly ever cry because of hilarious situations. More often than not, it is the result of feeling hungry, frustrated, feeling pain and being frightened.

With adults crying takes greater significance. The term “tears of liberation,” besides sounding very sentimental, is also very factual. The severe impact that tensions produce on the inner self, find a restful and consoling outburst in tears. Tears are, thefrefore, the safety-valves for well-being, just as the eruption of a dormant volcano releases the pressure that is inbuild within the crust of the earth. There is no doubt that the combustion that goes on where the “journey to the centre of the earth,” leads to, is enormous. The burning gases and sulphur generate geophysical expansion and tensions.

With added emotional stress crying becomes a solution. It prolongs life spans, it keeps tear ducts well watered, it adds theatrics to daily common place situations, it pleads sympathy.

Maybe that’s why the female human species, as compared with its male counterpart, lives so much longer. And that’s why too it is being discovered that the collective exercise of crying is a healthy practice.

Crying is a challenging feat for actors on stage and on screen. Evolving the characters in text that induces crying is a challenge to authors and poets. Emotions, depending on a degree of proficiency and ability, can be transmitted to an audience in very effective ways by whatever medium its creator chooses to adopt. Sometimes, to-day’s media go to elaborate strategies to make people cry.

Why is it, then that we all start our lives crying ?

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