Have you ever cried in public?

Oh yes! I hadn't cried much most of my life. I was taught ot be tough, not show emotion.

Then about 10 years ago, my boyfriend, whom I loved very much and thought was THE ONE, died in an accidental drowning- the only day we had spent apart since we met a year before that. I was crushed and devastated. I cried for a couple of days straight.

I got better but the same week I went to Starbuck's and was waiting in line for some coffee and sporadically started crying right there. I left to go cry it out in my car, but I was shocked how it come on like that and it suddenly happened like that for another couple of weeks. Since letting the floodgates go, I am more sensitive and don't really find a need to hold back emotion as much.

I guess once you've cried in public, it doesn't matter anymore- the tough exterior is out of the closet, so to speak. I haven't cried in public like that again, but I shed a tear or two at a sad movie. I like my more sensitive side being out in the open.

Somebody said above it makes someone feel more vulnerable, but I remember a quote: "A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Yes, I've cried in public and felt foolish and embarrassed. It has to do with letting down ones guard and feeling vulnerable. It's not something that I do especially in public.

Yes I've cried in public. I think nearly everyone has. Sometimes our emotions are so strong that it is almost impossible not to do it.

But I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing, sometimes we just need to let it go If we feel like it.

Cried at a job one time because the day was very stressful and I also had PMS. I was embarrassed and dried up the tears as quick as I could.

I don't cry a lot if i'm honest, I tend to cry more out of laughter than depression but I have just been so exhausted and irritated that I cried on a bus once. Also once my ex boyfriend kissed me at a party as I was a bit tipsy and I was so consumed with guilt and shock that I broke into tears and ran to my best friend, he had to hug me tight so that I would calm down but although it seems totally embarassing it's actually one of my favourite memories of my friend as he was there for me when I needed him and if it weren't for him I would have been in hysterics.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.