Allow myself to cry when I need to

I have decided to go ahead and mark this off my list. I don’t cry much, but I don’t hold back as much as used to. I will only let one person see me cry and sometimes when I do feel like crying, I won’t let myself, but I don’t think that is a bad thing. I think it all works for me right now.

I woke up just feeling sad for no real reason. I felt like laying in bed and crying, but I didn’t.

Then I ended up having a panic attack which equals a lot of tears. And since then I have pretty much been crying off and on all day. I’ve barely been out of bed and the most productive thing I’ve done all day was take a shower (which I was doing when I had my panic attack).

i am not really afraid to cry in front of people, but for some reason i think i have always got to be billy bad ass ( runs in the family!)

the strongest person allows others to see them at their weakest.
i want to be strong.

that is really hard specailly if you are infont of other people that you dont want them to see you cry .. some time i said to my self dont care about other and just do what ever you feel like to do .. but also im not living alone in this world and i should take care of my feelings specailly infront of other .. i really wish that i could allow my self to cry when i need to .. there is alot of things in this world that really when you think about you just feel like crying .. no need ot name some of them but if u think about the war and all our lovers that we are lose .. oh go now i need ot cry

Very hard for me to do. I don’t know why. I haven’t cried in years. Even when I’m sad, I tend to stop myself from crying.

I am doing this, allowing myself to cry when I need to. For a long time I felt awkward or embarrassed to cry in front of others. One day I just decided that I was being a phony for acting like nothing affected me. It seemed so unreal as if I had no heart or feelings.

I decided to let my loved ones (including my friends) see me for who I was and if I felt like crying they would just have to accept me for being me. Now whenever I am upset or sad or happen to experience emotional events and feel like crying, I do.

You don’t even have to allow yourself to cry. That’s too much thinking. When you feel like crying, just do it. It’s part of you, part of being human, it’s an honest emotion. Believe me, once you let go, the tears come out and afterwards, you feel so much better.

To deny yourself the relief of tears is like denying yourself the right to be who you are.

I’ve started crying every time I see one of those trucks that’s used to transport animals to the slaughterhouse, if the truck is full. Seeing the chicken feathers fly out of the truck or the pink ears of the pigs breaks my heart. I don’t know why I’ve just started doing this, but I’ve done this three times in a row, now.
No one else has been with me in the car so far when this has happened. I’m not sure how I’ll explain myself if I do start crying about the animals when I’m in the car with someone.
I’ve noticed that since starting this goal that I do cry more but I feel better afterward. It’s nice to finally feel like it’s ok to cry about whatever is bothering me.

I cried several times yesterday. It was the last day of my mini-vacation and I was sad to leave the Cities and my friends. St. Paul was my home for so long that just being there was sad. I also listened to a few sad songs in the car which also brought on tears.
I didn’t sob, so I was fine to drive. It was nice to be able to let the tears flow and not worry about it. There’s nothing quite like leaving a place and having to keep wiping the tears from your face as you drive away.

I really feel like crying right now. There’s no big reason for it, just a lot of little things. But I’m not crying. I should be, I need to be, I just can’t.