# When was the last time you cried? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570 "2024-11-01T22:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/1 "2024-11-01T22:27:43Z")
There’s a great German expression “zu nah am Wasser gebaut haben” which literally means" to have built too close to water", it figuratively means that someone breaks into tears at every occasion. I’m not one of these people, I rarely cry even in desperate and depressed situations, but I’m also not one of the typical males who got told in his youth that it was unmanly to cry and it caught on, I’ve always thought that this is bullshit. It happens rarely, but I can be moved to tears by music, movies or books. The latest occasion I remember was when I made this post a year ago: > [@What's your favorite Bob Dylan cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-bob-dylan-cover/990887/74): > > Thank you, thank you so much for posting this. I was moved to tears and cried like a baby (I’m writing this still with tears in my eyes). Of course I knew about Springsteen’s concert in East-Berlin and its importance, I even knew the short speech he gave in German before the song. But I never knew that he dared to play “Chimes Of Freedom”. It’s such a strong plea for freedom in a song like few others, and the line “And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail” hit so close to hom… I really don’t want to make this a depressing thread, and I think that crying often is a liberating and therapeutic thing, so what was your last time, out of joy or grief? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/2 "2024-11-01T22:31:14Z")
The last time I cried was the week my husband died. Since then I have been sad or grieving or angry, but I have not cried. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/3 "2024-11-01T22:32:42Z")
Exactly 8 years ago this month. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/4 "2024-11-01T22:38:45Z")
I cry a lot, in the sense of being moved to tears. The last time I cried was yesterday evening, watching [this old flash mob](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE). ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/5 "2024-11-01T22:42:07Z")
A few days ago when I learned about the death of Phil Lesh. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/6 "2024-11-01T22:43:39Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I cry a lot, in the sense of being moved to tears. This. I teared up multiple times watching the movie about Christopher Reeve. It’s very sad. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/7 "2024-11-01T22:43:42Z")
Today, watching an IG video. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/8 "2024-11-01T23:07:20Z")
I’m very sentimental and moved to tears quite easily. Facebook videos of children or adults being surprised with a puppy or a kitten will make me tear up. I watched one earlier today that tugged at my heart enough to open the flood gates. It’s just who I am. Events like that aside, the last time I had a serious cry was after the death of my father, and that was several years ago. I had been carrying the load for weeks and something happened that set me off. It was very therapeutic, and when I finally got it out of me I was able to move on. I’ve cried at the passing of several beloved pets. When a pet has been part of your life for the better part of two decades, how can you not mourn their passing? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/9 "2024-11-01T23:14:32Z")
The last time that I can remember was this past April, when I got some bad health news; that led to several days of intermittent crying. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/10 "2024-11-01T23:26:05Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I’ve cried at the passing of several beloved pets. When a pet has been part of your life for the better part of two decades, how can you not mourn their passing? Oh yes, this. I’m lucky to have all my closest family, parents and siblings, still around, but I lost my grandparents and many of my uncles and aunts, but I never cried. But among the pets I had, a rabbit called Aljoscha stood out, we had a special relationship and loved it each other. When he had a terminal eye infection and had to be euthanized, I held him in my hands. And when I sat down in my car at the clinic parking lot afterwards, I had to cry for several minutes. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/11 "2024-11-01T23:29:41Z")
Today. My youngest twin passed away almost 2 years in a household accident. She was such a happy bunny, and very much on the autism spectrum with special needs. She went to a 6-12 grade school that was simply wonderful. It was a very happy place where she was part of the DNA and well loved. Her senior year, she started a lunch time garden club. The Principle had applied for a modest amount of funding to the school district to create a garden in an uncovered indoor patio area at the school. Serena passed away in Jan 2022, the garden was converted in May 2022. My neighbor had a nice little metal sign made that said “Serena’s Garden.” My family, teachers and admins, fellow garden club students planted the garden that May, and planted some of Serena’s ashes under some of the plants and put up the sign. Chatting with colleagues yesterday, one mentioned that tomorrow is Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Not something I have ever participated in. I went by the school today to deliver some fresh living flowers to Serena’s Garden. Damn, I sooooooo miss that girl. I cried. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/12 "2024-11-01T23:30:09Z")
Tears of joy: Jan.20, 2009, around noon. That might not have been the last time, but it is the one I remember. I couldn’t believe that the US had come to this. But had I know what was to come 8 years later… ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/13 "2024-11-01T23:41:45Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > _I went by the school today to deliver some fresh living flowers to Serena’s Garden. Damn, I sooooooo miss that girl. I cried._ I’m in tears now, from reading your story. What a moving tribute that garden is. May Serena’s memory be a blessing to you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/14 "2024-11-01T23:46:11Z")
Heh, what time is it? Columbus Day was the anniversary of the death of one of our dogs and in the afternoon it hit me and I had to go be by myself for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/15 "2024-11-01T23:54:53Z")
I’ve experienced bad setbacks and lost people very dear to me but in all my grief I can’t cry. But I will bawl like a baby at a sad song. The other day I was reading the lyrics to Emmylou Harris’ Red Dirt Girl–not listening to it, just reading the lyrics, though it was playing in my head–and a passing stranger asked me if I was ok. I’m so sorry for your loss, @China_Guy ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/16 "2024-11-02T00:00:19Z")
This past August, when we had to put our dog down. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/17 "2024-11-02T00:16:53Z")
Yup. Every dog down is a fountain. I LOVE our current boys, but there’s always a little anticipation of sorrow. My wife got the notice that an old family friend of hers and her parents has metastatic cancer. Tears there for sure. I think I cried when my Mom died in 2017 but it was also such a relief that I can’t remember. I had serious depression after my first life-altering injury/arthritis 5 years ago, and spent many tears. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/18 "2024-11-02T00:23:49Z")
An hour ago, just massive gratitude for where I am at right now. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/19 "2024-11-02T02:00:16Z")
When my son was killed in a car accident I didn’t cry right away. But when the tears came I cried for what seemed like centuries. All the while realizing that no amount of crying would do anything. Every now and then I relapse into that grief. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/20 "2024-11-02T03:27:07Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > Every now and then I relapse into that grief. {{{hugs}}} [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570.md?page=2)