I rarely cry. The fact is that I always try to follow the stereotype of a hard, adamant, and unmoved stereotype of a guy who does not moan and complain.
Nevertheless, last time Youtube suggested one video clip. I must admit that after watching this masterpiece, the teardrops appeared on my face. What was the title of the song? It was Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet.” The video clip astonished me. Pure, artistic, minimalistic, and geometric stills that appeared in front of my eyes struck me like Cupid’s arrow hit Romeo. I was truly amazed. Simultaneously I asked myself why there are few such artistic video clips.
Nevertheless, the fact is that this melancholic, charming, and breathtaking song made me cry.
I wonder how many there are still similar undiscovered, great songs hidden in the virtual reality. Moving to the past times, I do not remember when I started to cry after watching the movie. It was probably after watching 1983’s “Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi” film. The fact is that I love Star Wars episodes directed in the ’70 and ’80.
Fyodor Dostoyevski wrote in his masterpiece “The Adolescent” that the laugh is the thing, thanks to which we can recognize other people’s personalities. It is a fascinating observation. I will back to this theme in the future. Nevertheless, after starting to cry after watching the “Romeo and Juliet” movie song, I started to wonder how often other people cry. In general, people do not talk about that.
Crying is undoubtedly one of the most intimate experiences.
When we see many strangers on the streets of the cities we live in, we probably do not think how often all those passers-by are crying. I was not the exception. I didn’t analyze it. But, since watching the Dire Straits music masterpiece, I wondered how many times other people cry. Or, going further, I also start to imagine how do other people look like while crying? You can ask me, my Dear Guest, why I want to do that. When people shed tears, they take off one of the masks that we all have on our faces. Crying provides us with another picture of humans’ faces and, above all, personalities.
Tears remarkably move us. Even human ethologists consider crying to be favored by natural selection.
