Tears

*sigh*  I don't know if it's just one of those days or what...

Have you ever felt like you wanted to cry - just because?  I do, but not for a reason I could define in a comprehensible way.  Even though there are a lot of things on my mind, I can't really pin this feeling to any one of them in particular.  

It such an odd thing that, every once in a while, a good cry sounds more appealing than a good laugh.  I know I'm not the first one to notice, nor the first to wonder about it.  In fact, while flipping through a magazine today, I stumbled across the title of a book on the subject:  Crying: The Mystery of Tears, by William H. Frey.  From the synopsis on Amazon, it looks quite intriguing.  Frey evidently approaches the topic of crying from a biochemist's perspective.  I don't know if reading it would make me feel any better, but it's an interesting find, nonetheless.   

Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that society suffers from a profound lack of appreciation for unhappy words.  So, I'm going to share a few of my favorites:

• dysphoric
• dispirited
• somber
• despondent
• glum
• melancholic
• saturnine
• dismal
• tenebrific
• doleful
• funereal
• disconsolate
• lachrymose
• austere
• forlorn

Isn't that a lovely list?  It actually makes me smile, as ironic as that may be.  :P  Anyway, if you happen to have any ideas on how to inspire a good cry, let me know.  I think I'm going to go take a nap.

~Grace

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