why are tears important?
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Tears serve to wash dirt from the eyes and keep teh eyes healthy. The eyes must always be lubricated.
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This is a good question. It depends really. If you are crying because...well...it's that time of the month and you are very emotional and you broke a nail a real man will be sensitive to it, but not to worried about it. If it is something major we want to fix it and make it all better, that's what guys do, we want to fix things.
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Tears drain away from each eye along two channels marked by a tiny opening at the inner edge of each lid. The channels lead to the lacrimal sac at the side of the nose, which is why your nose runs when you cry. Yawning exerts pressure on the lacrimal sac causing normal tearing.\n\nIf you have excessive teary eyes (or they are tearing all the time), talk to your doctor about it. If it is just when you yawn or wind is in your eyes or you are crying, this is nothing to worry about.
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Few Men are worth a Woman's tears......and the ones who are, won't make them cry....\n\nI wish I could give a better answer than that, because I really don't know. Some people are mean and do it just for that reason, thinking that it empowers them over another person. Others have so much of themselves invested in another person that even when something happens unintentionally, it can still cut like a knife.
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Tears are a liquid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.\n\nThere are three basic types of tears:\n\nBasal tears: In healthy mammalian eyes, the cornea is continually kept wet and nourished by basal tears. They lubricate the eye and help to keep it clear of dust. Tear fluid contains water, mucin, lipids, lysozyme, lactoferrin, lipocalin, immunoglobulins, glucose, urea, sodium, and potassium. Some of the substances in lacrimal fluid fight against bacterial infection as a part of the immune system. \n\nReflex tears: The second type of tears results from irritation to the eye by foreign particles, or substances such as onion vapors or tear gas or pepper spray. These reflex tears attempt to wash out irritants that may have gotten into the eye. \n\nCrying or weeping: The third category, also referred to as crying or weeping, is increased lacrimation due to strong emotional stress or pain. This practice is not restricted to negative emotions; many people have been known to cry when extremely happy. In humans, emotional tears can be accompanied by reddening of the face and sobbing — cough-like, convulsive breathing, sometimes involving spasms of the whole upper body. Tears brought about by emotions have a different chemical make up than those for lubrication.
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It's ok to cry.  Our culture tells every man to not show his feelings, but that's not a very healthy way to live.  Showing your feelings, not being afraid to cry, makes you a stronger person than someone who can't show his feelings.  You are stronger because you can deal with what is inside you.  They can't.\n\nPS:  When a girl sees a man cry, she wants to comfort him, shower him with love and affection.  If you want to get your girlfriend into a session of intense love-making (not just sex), do something emotional, like watch a movie, that will get those eye juices flowing.  She won't be able to resist.
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Men don't understand a womans emotional being. I cry all the time for no reason (i am pregnant though) but if you really look at it how good does it feel to cry, DAMN GOOD! i believe it helps me stay sane. keeps me balanced, if i couldn't cry for no reason than i would cry for every other reason, which i don't because i cry for no reason, does that make sense? i think that yes it shows a sign of strength that you can cause yourself to be most vulnerable, because really nobody makes themselves vulnerable, they always wait for somebody else to. and I am completely Happy with myself and not depressed. i just think that crying is good for your soul.
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Crying or weeping: Is increased lacrimation due to strong emotional stress or pain. This practice is not restricted to negative emotions; many people have been known to cry when extremely happy. In humans, emotional tears can be accompanied by reddening of the face and sobbing — cough-like, convulsive breathing, sometimes involving spasms of the whole upper body. Tears brought about by emotions have a different chemical make up than those for lubrication. \n\n\nSome claim that humour cannot or should not be explained. Author E. B. White once said that "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, as follow.
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This can be caused by a narrow tear duct.  It also can make you more prone to infections.  It is a congenative thing, so there really isn't any medicine or anything to treat it, but depending on your case, there may be a surgical treatment.
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Tears are a liquid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.\n\nOne lacrimal gland is located above and beside each eye, behind the upper eyelid. The lacrimal glands secrete lacrimal fluid which flows through lacrimal ducts into the space between the eyeball and lids. When the eyes blink the lacrimal fluid is spread across the surface of the eye. The lacrimal fluid flows through the lacrimal lake via the puncta to the lacrimal caniliculi at the inner corner of the eyelids then through the nasolacrimal duct, and finally into the nasal cavity. An excess of tears, as with strong emotion, can thus cause the nose to run.\n\nThe third type, referred to as crying or weeping, is increased lacrimation due to strong emotional stress or pain. This practice is not restricted to negative emotions; many people have been known to cry when extremely happy. In humans, emotional tears can be accompanied by reddening of the face and sobbing — cough-like, convulsive breathing, sometimes involving spasms of the whole upper body. Tears brought about by emotions have a different chemical make up than those for lubrication.
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It's all psychological and "anatomical (?):" When you hear something that's emotionally painful to you, your brain starts to think differently and asks and answers multiple questions at the same time, consciencely or subconsciencely. To some point of this simultaneous complex thinking, it will tell the tear ducts to expel tears for no reason. Also, it will have some kind of pain around your heart (the heart-break feeling).\n\nI don't know exactly why the brain does that, but I think it's merely psychological. All animals do not cry for emotional or physical pain (salt-water crocodiles "cry" to expel salt). My hypothesis would be that sometime millenias ago, crying was a sign of sadness in some way, then, as evolution takes place, it just becomes embedded in our mind that the instinct when we're in pain, we tend to cry. But that's just my hypothesis and to my extent of my knowledge.\n\nPS Penguins!!!
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This site answers your question perfectly:\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002914.htm\n\nThey give several reasons for this including dehydration, post nasal drainage and overproducing tears.  Check out the link above....
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No, they cannot have tears.  It was probably holy water or the make-up.  And he probably seemed shorter bacause his legs were covered.
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we actually cry as much at sad endings; as happy 1's------Its an overwhelming emotion-empathy--you cant help it--you feel like your the one in the situation.It overcomes your emotions and you let loose. Passes a hanky
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Go into space and your tears may become beautiful spheres of human saline lubricant floating through the air.  pretty bubble tears.\nYou can make them do tricks and try to make them combine to form a larger, even more beautiful sphere of human eye lubricant.\n\nYou would have to projectile cry if you wish to launch the tears though...and I don't know anyone who can do that personally.  Normal people would have to get it started by flicking them off themselves with a fingernail.\n\n.
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Crying is an art perfected by the release of tears to express inward frustration of an individual.When under water all the body fuculties will act normally adopting to the new underworld environment.When you psychologically feel the essence to let it out,i.e cry,you`ll definately do that and this time round your frustration will not be expressed by tears but by facial expression owing to the fact that water will definately dilute the visibility of any tears due to it`s volume.
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There are two basic reasons why eyes water.  Eyes can water if the tear ducts are blocked.  You can have surgery to solve this problem but sometimes the results are less than completely successful.  Tears are also a reaction to something irritating the surface of the eyes.  The irritation can be allergy, air pollution, infection, scratches on the surface of the eye, and even dry eye.