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jamesqThree things can trigger it for me.
1) Grieving. I cried at both my parent's funerals.
2) Depression. When it's at its worst and the demons are feasting. Episodes this intense are thankfully rare.
3) Depictions of bravery from otherwise ordinary people usually make me tear up. I'm not sure why that is, except to suggest some combination of what I consider near-superhuman self-sacrificing in a good cause and the director/actor's ability to really play a scene.
In general though I've been trained not to cry. Because that's something boys don't do. My view is that it's akin to vomiting. An unpleasant experience, but something that needs doing occasional because the alternative is worse. And like vomiting, it's something I wish I could force at times but have thus far completely failed at.
1) Grieving. I cried at both my parent's funerals.
2) Depression. When it's at its worst and the demons are feasting. Episodes this intense are thankfully rare.
3) Depictions of bravery from otherwise ordinary people usually make me tear up. I'm not sure why that is, except to suggest some combination of what I consider near-superhuman self-sacrificing in a good cause and the director/actor's ability to really play a scene.
In general though I've been trained not to cry. Because that's something boys don't do. My view is that it's akin to vomiting. An unpleasant experience, but something that needs doing occasional because the alternative is worse. And like vomiting, it's something I wish I could force at times but have thus far completely failed at.
