Tears: A Sign of Life<\/b><\/p>\n
Crying is common in this world. It does little good to ask the reason for it. Muddyscuttle is what one might call a weeping planet. Laughter can be heard here and there, but by and large, weeping predominates. With maturity the sound and reason for crying changes, but never does it stop. All infants do it everywhere\u2014even in public. By adulthood most crying is done alone and in the dark. Weeping, for babies, is a sign of health and evidence that they are alive. Isn\u2019t this a chilling omen? <\/p>\n
Not laughter but tears is the life sign. It leaves weeping and being synonyms. <\/p>\n
Calvin Miller, The Valiant Papers, p. 22<\/p>\n
Reasons for <\/p>\n
Tears resulting from sadness, anger, fear or joy vary chemically from those caused by smelling onions and may be nature\u2019s method of removing chemicals built up by stress from the body. Dr. William Frey II, of the Psychiatry Research Laboratories at the St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, St. Paul, Minn., believes this to be the case. Studies he has done indicate that women cry five times as often as men and that 85% of the women and 73% of the men thought that crying made them feel better. Most common reason for crying is sadness, followed in rank by happiness, anger, sympathy, anxiety and fear.<\/p>\n
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