When was the last time you cried?

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People tend to cry when they're sad. It doesn't mean they're weak. Having a good cry helps sometimes like u feel much better after u cry the pain away. sometimes i wonder what its like to feel okay to cry. i was a little crybaby when i was like 7 but then when i transferred to another school i saw it as the opportunity to "revamp myself" AHAHAHA i was a lil Jay Gatsby :') and ever since then i just been building up walls. more walls. high walls. thicker walls. a fuckin moat. anything and everything from getting people too close. i have yet to shoot down anyone that got too close to the first wall i built when i was 8. i have friends who have made it past the moat and some walls. some keep trying to climb or break down more walls and some made it past the wall because i gave them the rope to climb over it. after climbing walls they just sit on the wall or lean against it and talk to me thru it, they don't try to climb more unless i throw them more rope. i love these sorta of people the most. they understand that the root of the problem is me and until i fix it and let them in, thrs nth they can do so they sit and accompany me along the way. because i'm so used to putting up walls and hiding my feelings and pretending problems don't exist when they clearly do, crying is like totally out of the picture :") its like when i'm sad or hurt i don't think of crying at all like i just sit thr and be sad or hurt. in the beginning, bottling up all ur feelins is hard because u want someone to realise that smth ain't right but in reality everyone is too busy wrapped up with their own issues to notice something is wrong with you. no one is going to "save you" princess, u gotta save yourself. u gotta face ur own demons on your own but if ur lucky u have some good friends that are willing to go to hell and back with u :)

crying is okay and i need to realise that. the last time i cried real genuine tears for a good amount of time was when i was 15. i did because i felt misunderstood and was yelled at for no good reason. i am currently 18 turning 19. its 2020. its time to change.