Interesting piece of information...

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There was a study done where a control group of 100 people were divided into two.

50 people watched a very funny, tears-of laughter type movie. 50 watched a very sad and tears of compassion type movie.

At the end of the sessions researchers collected the "happy tears" and the "sad tears" with eye droppers.

They found that "happy tears" are made up of brine...salt water and not a great deal else. However the "sad tears" were found to contain the very same chemicals and enzymes that are found in tumours, ulcers and other such lumps and bumps and sicknesses through out the body.

This test concluded that the body, when crying in sadness etc is literally flushing out all of the toxic-chemicals that accumulate and are a part of the sadness /heart ache experience.

Therefore if one holds back those tears, those toxic-waters will find somewhere else to deposit themselves.....and prolonged lack-of-crying-release will guarantee that the body will accumulate a huge amount of internal pollution and toxicity that should have been released through the tears........is it any wonder that the eyes sting so much when we hold back our tears?

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I choose to agree with the above forwarded information. Believe me, I have done a great deal of crying this year, and it is only August! It doesn't matter if my cries are sniffles or *earth-shattering*, even if my head feels 1000000 times heavier, eyes dangling on the edge of their sockets, nose = geyser, I always feel better after a cry. Sometimes the cries come out from nowhere and sometimes the slightest hint of a particular name turns on the tap.

YES, despite the strong exterior, I am only human.

"You will look back on the times you laughed and you will cry. You will look back on the times you cried, and you will laugh."