by carolyna

Created on: February 23, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2007

I've cried for many sorts of reasons, a few of those times have been greatly misinterpreted by other people. Once when I was at school a few of us were mucking around when a couple of friends were having a staring competition. To try and break one of our friend's concentration, we were moving hair onto her face, or just trying to be annoying. At this one time though, while my friend was staring, I moved some of her hair, and she slapped me! It was a mistake of course; through her limited peripheral vision she had thought it was one of the other girls. The slap hadn't hurt though, but for some reason I was crying. I wasn't crying as in sobbing; I was fine, but tears were coming out of my eyes. It was really a bizarre experience. I suppose it could have been from shock from the unexpected reaction, but I just thought it was really funny! I'd read somewhere that in that sort of case, you cry because you see both the funny side, and the sad side at the same time.

Another time I've cried was when my boss at the time had me aside for a "chat". I really hated it when I cried at these sorts of times because I knew my boss (male) interpreted it as a weakness or being overly emotional. What he didn't seem to understand was that I was crying because I was so frustrated and stressed out by the situation and that I knew there is no way things were going to improve, and that I was going to have really fight a hard fight to make things happen, or I was going to have to leave. In this case, my work situation was so poor and my boss was such a condescending misogynist. He'd taken me into the office in an attempt to play "the caring manager" and said "You know if you have any problems, you can always talk to me about them" and then he continued in the next breath "but as far as I can see it, you shouldn't have any problems". The hilarity of the situation and hypocrisy of what he'd just said, and knowing that if any man were in my position putting up with what I had to put up with from him they would have punched him and quit, just made me cry about the futility of the situation. It was pure frustration and outrage at what an idiot he was, not to mention extremely annoying that he had no idea that that is what I thought of him!

I've cried when I haven't had the courage to be truthful and hurt someone I've cared a lot for. I had been dating a guy for a while, but during a misunderstanding where we had an argument, my ex-boyfriend had decided he wanted me back. I'd just told this

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