Think About It Thursday - Crying Is Pretty Weird If You Think About It

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When we get sad, hurt, or when we laugh too hard, for some reason our eyes start leaking water (or saline)...  That is pretty freaking weird if you really think about it!  Why does the body have a need to cry for feeling sad or hurt?


Women cry an average of 50 times a year and men cry and average of 10 times a year. The body actually has 3 kinds of tears: basal, reflex and psychic.
  • Basal Tears: Keep your cornea (the transparent front of your eye) nourished and lubricated so your eyes don’t dry out.
  • Reflex Tears: Help you to wash out any irritations to your eyes from foreign particles or vapors
  • Psychic Tears: Tears produced in response to that strong emotion you may have from stress, pleasure, anger, sadness, laughing, and physical pain
All these different types of tears even look different under a microscope!  They are made up of different kinds of molecules.  I can understand the tears to keep eyes moist or to flush out a foreign object, but what makes me wonder and contemplate is why the eye produce tears for emotions?  From what I have been able to read and find out is that they serve as a non-verbal communication.  Babies cry from the get go.  Not being able to talk is pretty hard to communicate if you are sad, hurt or even over joyed.  So tears can help get that point across!


These emotional tears can help accentuate the other emotional queues we give off.  All three types of tears have their purpose and crying is one to let others know your emotional state.  Me personally I hardly ever cry.  Not sure why, but it just doesn't happen for me.  I can count on one hand how many times I have cried.  Not teared up from and onion or cried because I was laughing so hard, but cried because I was sad or hurt.  Guess I'm a Rookie in that regard... :)

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