A mushy movie, a lonely self, a break up in relationship, a low score in exam and we cry. But why do we cry?
I have always wondered about the mechanism of crying. It is like when your eyes “see” a heavy heart and mind, they immediately ring up the tear gland for the supply of salty water tanks. [Side thought: Didn't they say salt was bad for heart?] The eyes work meticulously to gauge the heaviness of heart so that appropriate quantity of salty water is ordered. This is an amazing skill. [Side thought: Which measuring instruments do they use and what unit?] Sometimes eyes need just a few drops and at the other times they call for a tsunami.
It is also amazing to see how gradually the heaviness of heart and mind gets lower with effusion of those saline drops.
For some people, the cardiac and mental weightiness goes away only when they have an audience for their “teary show”, while others get relieved only by shedding drops in solitude.
Well, well, well…this saline water also brims our eyes when we are ecstatic. This I guess must have been promoted by tear gland to not end up in recession in those happy “dry” days.
Other than eyes, heart, and mind there is one more entity that is part of the teary show—the cheeks. If the cheeks feel someone else’s touch rubbing away the tears, they glow and immediately a signal reaches to the glands’ office that they can discontinue their supply. But if the cheeks find no one to comfort their chubby self, they turn their “face away” and become dry and creaky.
It has been observed that when the tear department does not use the “organic” way of production, the natural dramatic outburst can sometimes become melodramatic. Due to adulteration of emotions, all the entities lose coordination and there is an overflow of tears even when the heart is not heavy and when cheeks are confusingly going up on the seesaw of lips to smile and then drooping down to show sadness.
This is not all; the mechanism of tears also differs when genders are taken into consideration. After centuries long archeological studies, it was found that the revered ladies had secretly encroached the saline reservoirs long time back and therefore even when men feel heavy in heart, they have to compromise with a “dry day.”
Well, that is the end of the story. Hope you are already mushy and your tear glands have got the emergency call.
[To know why "scientifically" crying is the natural reaction to sadness, visit this link. And now that you are so much inspired, use Google man!]
lol.. I like how you wrote this with a tinge of humour…