I really loved how you wrote this. It felt less like an article and more like a conversation with your own mind, where every answer was questioned again. It reminded me of falsifiability, you kept challenging your own explanations instead of settling for the first one. I do the exact same thing. I know there are scientific answers to a lot of these questions, but somehow they never satisfy the emotional side of them.

I’ve wondered about crying for a long time too, even though I’ve never really experienced deep grief. What has always confused me is that I’ve cried over fictional characters, strangers, and even animals I’ve never known, yet there have been real losses in my own life where I didn’t cry at all. That contradiction never made sense to me. It makes me wonder whether tears are really about loss itself or about how our minds experience it.

Your point about crying being a social signal also reminded me of something I learned in criminology. People often judge how deeply someone has suffered based on whether they cry, even in court. It makes me wonder why we’ve made tears the default measure of sadness when people can feel the same pain without ever crying.

Moreover, I also liked how you balanced science with emotion. Science explains how crying works, but not why one moment breaks us while another doesn’t. It didn’t answer all my questions, but it definitely made me ask better ones. Thanks for writing this.