To The Girl Who Never Cries…

You are known as the girl who never cries. It’s not exactly accurate. You cry. You do. You just don’t cry a lot.

Not a lot of things make you emotional, is all. It’s not like you have some supernatural power, it’s not like how people cry at will; you’re not telling yourself not to cry.

It just doesn’t happen.

And you’re totally okay with that because crying is unpleasant. It’s messy and you get congested and sometimes, if you cry hard enough, you give yourself a headache. Crying dehydrates you.

How messed up is that?

But, because you never cry in public, people seem to think the worst. They think you’re broken, that you have no emotions.

They call you heartless.

And, well, that’s a little harsh, when you think about it.

But, even so, you’re not going to let them see you cry, because that’s not who you are. Sometimes, it’s a matter of making sure that nobody ever sees you at your weakest; nobody gets to see you breakdown.

That’s private and for your eyes only. It’s not a public spectacle. You’re not selling tickets.

Other times, it’s really very simple – it’s very hard to make you cry.

And, shit, you know what, you just really don’t like your crying face. You would rather not have that exposed to the entire planet. If the people closest to you could go their whole lives without the image of you sobbing burned into their retinas, you could die happy.

If you’re crying, you are in pain. If you’re crying, something is wrong. If you’re crying, something has happened.

If you’re crying, alone in your room in the middle of the night, you’re sad. You’re emotional. Something is making you feel this way.

If you’re crying in public, though? You are devastated. Something is horrifically wrong with your universe. Your world is ending.

So, no, you’re not one of those people that cries tears of joy, or laughter. You don’t watch a TV show and empathize with the characters so much that you get a little choked up about it.

Crying is not cathartic for you. In fact, it just makes you more stressed out than you might’ve been before.

The few people that have seen you cry know better than to mention it. It’s just not something that you like to talk about.

You may not be the girl who never cries, but you are the girl who no one’s ever seen cry, and you plan to keep it that way.