good morning!

anyways this post is about whether crying makes me feel good or bad. one would superficially think that crying is a “bad” thing, because that’s how we’ve always been taught as a kid. “oh no, look you made them / her / him cry. you can’t do that kind of stuff”. so crying has a bad association.

yet like i keep saying, (human) life needs both laughter and crying, just like plants need both sunshine and rainfall.¹ And even when i feel like shaking from the emotions; i still recognize that this is what life is supposed to be all about; having all the emotions, including the “bad” ones. it’s just in our modern times that we’ve saught an imbalance in things, but that’s neither sustainable nor right.

idk whether you can understand these thoughts; but they came to me while i contemplated whether i should post “i can cry again” into the trans_joy community. is it “joy”? i would say yes, but a deeper, less superficial type of joy than when one’s laughing. it’s not so much a superficial expression of joy, but a deeper feeling that things are right.

unrelated stuff about the german language

[1]: the german phrase is “Sonnenschein und Regen”, it’s a beautiful phrase. i’m saying this because i kinda think that while people enjoy shitting on the german language a lot (deservedly) for all its Artikel and grammatical complexity, some phrases and words are actually outright beautiful, and this is one of them.

  • Squished Fly (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    I’m gonna take this on a tangent and say that, while I don’t agree that german is a beautiful language, I still love it. For me at least, articulating my feelings is sooo much easier in English. When I try it in German it feels just wrong.

    German, however, is the most beautiful language for anything technical. The fact that we can plop words together to our liking makes so many things so much easier. Take the word “friction” - “Reibungswiderstand” for example. Reibungswiderstand basically just consists of Reibung (rubbing) and wiederstand (resistance). Rubbing resistance basically already describes what the word itself is, instead of needing a new word.

    • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I don’t agree that german is a beautiful language

      I recently got a chance to talk here, on Lemmy, with a German, who describe German language as, and I quote:

      “But german itself sounds like two machine-guns having sex.”