What makes you weep?

I haven’t cried in many a long year. But I do occasionally weep.

These are some of the things that cause me to weep: -

  1. Someone showing me great kindness
  2. My feeling great pity for someone
  3. Feeling great sadness about whatever
  4. Being outrageously wronged
  5. Great laughter and mirth (sometimes ending in tears)
  6. Seeing or hearing a beautiful work of art
  7. Experiencing great happiness
  8. Suddenly realising I’ve wronged someone

What do you ever weep about, if anything?

I weep when i feel really guitly.

onoins

lol

I the thread about men crying I talk a little bit about my weeping.

My mother.

It’s the only thing I can think of that will make me cry. I shed a half tear while driving a few days ago- it had something to do with my boyfriend, but the exact thought that prompted it eludes me and I think it actually had something to do with my character and nothing to do with him.

The Lion King.

Ok, there’s another- why? The beginning, the “circle of life” idea coupled with some great animation- evocative colors that have an effect on me. I remember falling into tears watching it one night because I thought to myself that if I could create those images, with that level of precision, that I would have expressed something that I lack the ability to express- a skill that I will never harness. In thinking this was to assume that I alone would do the whole thing, not a team of animators and Elton John. It was an unattainable dream- an irrational expectation, perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I couldn’t work (paint/draw) at the time. It also related to the idea of where we all fit into life’s puzzle and purpose.

Thanks for reminding me of it.

Now you can all get your jollies about someone crying while watching “Lion King”.

Weeping is letting out. I don’t weep, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t let out. I let it out in terms of an initial extreme reasoning about the matter and then from a critical point of view, put the matter into perspective. Sometimes I’m too tired to do that kind of philosophical thinkings, so I just go out and buy something nice to eat, drink wine over and above like 55%, and eat a lot of chillies on their own - with the wine of course.

Don’t you mean that you cry when you feel remorse because I know that no one cries because of feeling guilty. Remorse comes AFTER the guilt.

That is so funny Ophelia, you’re a treasure! :laughing:

I think we all share your sentiments. I just cannot understand how people cry when they are happy though.

I am not ashamed to say that the only thing that makes me weep is Classical musik (Baroque) while watching war footage or playing war games.

The overwhelming emotion of the musik coupled with the silent visual of combat creates a beauty which is not really definable.

There are few moments in which the perfect set of notes mixes with the perfect visual.

lol that just sounded crazy lol