GREAT READS → SIDEKICK Issue 939 · December 7, 2022

The Six Stages of Tears  

We’re all born crying. It’s a habit that sticks for life

The Six Stages of Tears  

We’re all in it together. Here’s my shoulder to cry on, for whichever stage you’re in.

When you become a mother, you learn that crying is not a personality thing. It’s a matter-of-fact thing

Infancy

You let out a howl the moment you’re born, and all the people in the room find your puckered face so endearing. It doesn’t occur to you to be embarrassed about it. As a newborn, you wail with your full lungpower, anytime and anywhere. For what? Because you’re hungry.

(You spend the rest of your life suppressing tears when you’re hungry. But why? It works.)

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