Cry if you have to.
We live in a world where we're being made to feel less of ourselves whenever we find ourselves crying about something that happened in our lives, especially if you're a man. We've been made to believe that as a man, you shouldn't shed any tears no matter the situation you find yourself in.
Well, I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be like that. Cry if you have to; the most important thing is that after crying, you get up and go face whatever it is that made you cry and try to make sure you never have to cry about that same thing ever again.
A few days ago, I walked out of my room only to see someone I know crying at the staircase. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an adult cry, so I was immediately alarmed and asked her what was wrong.
This lady also happens to be a friend of mine, so when I noticed she was a bit resistant on opening up to me, probably because we were in public, I had invited her over to my room and talked to her there. At first I had thought something terrible had happened; maybe she had lost a loved one or something.
Well, luckily that wasn't the case. It turned out she was crying because she was stressed. I later found out that she does this all the time; she cries whenever she feels some kind of way, and according to her, it helps her relieve stress.
It was weird to me at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I asked myself what was weird about it. What's so wrong about crying that we all now see it as a very terrible thing? So cry if you have to, especially when you know that it will help you go through whatever it is you may be going through at that particular time.
