How We Cry Joyful Tears

Dancing Elephants Prompt 41 of 52: Tears of joy

There are so many ways one could have tears, the main ones are sadness and happiness. People can also cry just because of the wind, and dust in the air. Tears are produced to flush out the irritants and protect the eye.

Of course, the main reason people cry is because of emotion. Which could be happiness or sadness as I mentioned. They also could be mad, or even just really stressed.

There are many benefits to crying, Like helps relieve the pain we are going through at that moment whether it be physical or emotional pain. People see you cry and you can get support from friends that you need. Crying has a soothing effect.

Crying for emotions is different for many people. Some cry easier than others. I know for me, I do not cry much. I cried when my parents passed away and I used to cry when men screwed me over again and again. But this was not until close to meeting my husband. I knew that I was getting older and still haven't found the “right one”, so I was getting a bit depressed over the situation.

The main time I cried tears of joy was for my kids. I was 19 when I had my daughter, I was surprised I was even able to give birth to her. I had in my head throughout the whole pregnancy that something would happen. Early on I thought I would miscarry and throughout my whole pregnancy, I just thought I could not be so lucky.

Luck in my life at that time was non-existence when I was younger. Growing up with parents with multiple addictions. Feeling quite unloved even though I do know my parents loved me and through the addictions, they did the best they could for me. When you are young you do not see that though.

When I was laying on the hospital bed getting my c-section with her, still had the fear of something going wrong. When the nurse brought her up by me so I could see my beautiful angel, the joyful tears flooded out like a damn opening.

The same happened to my son when I had him. But the fear was not there this time. I was just so happy and couldn’t ask the Lord for anything more in my life. At this point,, I took care of having any more unwanted pregnancies after they took my son out.

Over the years I have not been a very emotional person. I think as I am getting older this maybe change or could be my medication, but I had noticed I have gotten a bit emotional at a wedding because both the bride and groom had a hard time saying the vows they had written without shedding many tears.

The man is my husband's friend and I’d say we have known him now for maybe 2 years or a little more. When he said his vows and had to stop to hold his emotions in to be able to finish, tears started welling up in my eyes. I looked over at his mother and this is her eldest child and she did not even have any tears in her eyes. Thought that is strange for a mother. But as I mentioned everyone is different and she just may not have many emotions.

Seeing a grown man cry like that really had gotten to me. Looking at these two getting married that day, I could see how much love they had for one another and I believe this is a marriage that will last if that love and happiness stays between them.

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