Trans Joy

good morning!

anyways this post is about whether crying makes me feel good or bad. one would superficially think that crying is a "bad" thing, because that's how we've always been taught as a kid. "oh no, look you made them / her / him cry. you can't do that kind of stuff". so crying has a bad association.

yet like i keep saying, (human) life needs both laughter and crying, just like plants need both sunshine and rainfall.¹ And even when i feel like shaking from the emotions; i still recognize that this is what life is supposed to be all about; having all the emotions, including the "bad" ones. it's just in our modern times that we've saught an imbalance in things, but that's neither sustainable nor right.

idk whether you can understand these thoughts; but they came to me while i contemplated whether i should post "i can cry again" into the trans_joy community. is it "joy"? i would say yes, but a deeper, less superficial type of joy than when one's laughing. it's not so much a superficial expression of joy, but a deeper feeling that things are right.