Tears Of A Clown (629 hits)
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Submitted by Merlina (View user info) at 2007-10-18 02:39:32 EDT
Some days you just need a good cry.
There's not always a good reason, and it can hit at any time, but sometimes you might feel sorry for yourself.
Sometimes you might think about the times when you didn't cry, when you really should have let it all out, but you didn't and it flooded back when sitting alone and thinking.
Sometimes it all gets too much. Maybe your life is going so well you cannot believe how you coped before.
Maybe that's the problem.
Maybe it was SO bad before and you battled on.... you didn't waste time crying as it was pointless. Or exhausting. It is exhausting isn't it...? And you had these feelings and tears all backed up threatening like a disease to just explode at some time is the distant future.
Or possibly you didn't want to wreck your face as you were heading out to meet someone cute. After all, its not a good look.
Maybe you were too proud and people were so used to seeing you cope that you felt you were letting them down if you showed that you were human too?
Is it a type of characteristic to cry? Are there some that cry more than others? I know that the cliché is that women cry more, but I have met many a weepy man in my past. So maybe it's a trait in some people where they feel the need to let water come out of their eyes as a release.
Does it indeed help?
Is it improving my mood? I guess the answer to that - at the moment - is no. It feels like a physical act - does that make sense to you?
You know my parents have both died and I hardly cried. That's got to be wrong.... right? Do other people, your family, think that you should have?
If you're not a crier, are you not crying because you're afraid to or because your body won't let you? Is it something you can actually control? I mean, you can stop yourself but can you physically make yourself cry - without thinking deliberately about something sad?
I'm crying today.
Nothing is wrong, exactly, maybe my body has simply chosen today.
User Reviews
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-10-20 09:13:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-18 04:29:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I gave up crying on my 17th birthday when I finally entered the world of work, became a man and went all dead inside.
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Yup, being a man means you no longer have the option of crying, or discussing said crying, with anyone, at any time.
If you do, the man clan comes at night and cuts your balls off with a pair of rusty garden shears.
It's true.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-10-19 10:04:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
There were some tears when one of my dogs died last year.
Fuck you people.
Submitted by netimportant (user info) at 2007-10-19 02:21:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-10-18 11:44:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I cried when my first wife left me for another woman.
Mostly I cried because I enjoyed watching them and that bit was over.
She's a heavy equipment operator now.
hahahaha
I tear up during sentimental parts on The Office. I also cry about men and when I have PMS.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-19 02:09:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-18 17:29:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
go on and cry me a river, cry me a river....
I cried a river over you...
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-10-18 17:11:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
there are random days I must cry. VERY infrequent.
However, sometimes it sneaks up on me. I'll be stuck in traffic, or reading a book, or watching something garbagy on TV, and WHAM I'm crying over something that happened years ago...
and I can go buy a little statue for my teensy garden!! THIS realizaton made me incredibly happy just now. Thank you!
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2007-10-18 14:50:53 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2007-10-18 13:58:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I was so hoping this was about the song......
Now if there's a smile on my face,
it's only there tryin' to fool the public,
but when it comes down to foolin' you;
Now honey, that's quite a different subject.
But don't let my glad expression
give you the wrong impression.
Really I'm sad.
Oh, sadder than sad.
You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.
Like a clown I pretend to be glad.
(Chorus)
Now there's some sad things known to man,
but ain't too much sadder than
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.
Oh yea, baby....
Now if I appear to be carefree,
it's only to camouflage my sadness.
In order to shield my pride I try
to cover this hurt with a show of gladness.
But don't let my show convince you
that I've been happy since you
decided to go.
Oh, I need you so.
I'm hurt and I want you to know
But for others I put on a show.
(Chorus)
There's some sad things known to man,
but ain't too much sadder than
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.
Just like Pagliacci did,
I try to keep my suface hid.
Smiling in the public eye
But in my lonely room I cry
the tears of a clown
when there's no one around.
Oh yea baby,
Now if there's a smile on my face
Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression.
Don't let this smile I wear
Make you think that I don't care
Really I'm sad
Hurtin' so bad......
Submitted by triangle_man (user info) at 2007-10-18 11:44:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I cried when my first wife left me for another woman.
Mostly I cried because I enjoyed watching them and that bit was over.
She's a heavy equipment operator now.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2007-10-18 09:58:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
On the rare occasions when I allow myself to cry, I go and lock myself up in a room for five minutes so no one else will see me or feel the need to try to comfort me. I personally hate having to try to comfort others. I'm no good at it.
Then I suck it up and call people who wallow in self-pity whiny children who need to buck the fuck up, because hypocrisy is awesome.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 09:56:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Things that make me cry
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Being able to realte to sad parts in films/television shows
My family being unhappy
HurtByTheSuns posts
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-18 09:54:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Moving music and deep emotional pain are about the only triggers of tears for me nowadays.
Submitted by Entaran (user info) at 2007-10-18 09:38:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I haven't cried in 16 years.
I physically can't anymore. 4 year relationship fell apart and not a single tear. I couldn't cry.
Lack of endorphins released during crying != happy futures. All bad for a while over a couple of issues.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2007-10-18 09:12:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It's been my experience that there are people that cry and people that don't. There is no in between.
This doesn't apply to children however.
Just an observation.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 07:27:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh yes my wrists are fucked from the razor cuts
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-10-18 07:15:25 EDT (#)
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EI, if you cried over football you'd dehydrate. England and Bristol City? Jesus. Almost worse than me!
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 06:55:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have never ever cried over football. I think thats going one step to far.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-18 06:48:45 EDT (#)
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Crying is a rare and beautiful thing.
I'm never moved to tears by sadness but I did cry when my first daughter was born.
I find that I never have much emotion when I lose a loved one. I mean sure its sad but it is what it is and doesn't really move me that much.
Maybe that's cold but who am I to judge how my body and mind handle emotions.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-10-18 06:47:34 EDT (#)
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I cried last night. Sometimes, it's shite being Scottish.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 04:56:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I gave up crying when daddy asked me to pick up his slippers with no clothes on.
:(
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-18 04:29:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I gave up crying on my 17th birthday when I finally entered the world of work, became a man and went all dead inside.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:52:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't cry when england beat us, but I did think it was funny when the kiwi girl nextdoor said she bawled when they lost to the french. "oh Amanda" I said, "It's only rugby, chin up little soldier."
And then when I was out of sight and 'round the fence I jumped in the air and clicked my heels.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:45:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That does sound like you steak man.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:39:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't seem to have your problem.
Apparently, I'm just bitter, cynical, and sarcastic.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:33:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I would like to think our paths are straight
Disconnected from choices we make
That there is no reason why it can't be like you said
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:19:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
My whole damn life, I've been an easy weeper.
I know for a bloody fact that I can be a disciplined, cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch.
Still, at the same time, I get all misty-eyed at tragic love-stories, kitties and other assorted 'softie' stuff. Pisses me right the fuck off, but there you go.
:(
Anyway, here's a joke I just read. Maybe it'll make you feel a bit better.
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I was at the mall the other day eating at the food court when I noticed
An old man watching a teenager sitting next to him.
The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors:
green, red, orange, and blue.
The old man kept staring at him. The teenager
would look and find the old man staring every time.
When the teenager had enough, he sarcastically asked,
"What's the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?"
The old man did not bat an eye in his response. "Got drunk once and had
Sex with a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son."
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:12:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Marge, what's wrong? Are you hungry? Sleepy? Gassy? Gassy? Is it
gas? It's gas, isn't it?
-- Homer Simpson
Fear of Flying
Submitted by netimportant (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:05:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
HOLD ME
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-18 03:04:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
*I cry all the time. I find it most annoying - as do others.
I get told not to cry, which I find stupefying. I don't choose to cry, it is my bodys response to what's going on in my head. Crying is, for me, cathartic.
People who don't cry are not necessarily repressed emotionally, they may have other outlets, such as rage or despondency.
I often cry when I am happy. I think this is oten the culmination of getting to the end of a 'bad patch.
*this review doesn't make much sense, I just want to show Merlina I know some big, grown up words. And their meaning.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-10-18 02:41:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
maybe you should try cutting yourself