Like a Baby

A speech on crying "like a baby".

Why do babies cry? When they cry, it means they don't yet have the words to express their needs or feelings. This trait carries on throughout life for some people. When I'm tired, when I'm sad, when I'm angry, when I'm happy, when I'm stressed, when I'm hungry, when I'm in pain and when I'm scared, I cry. I have feelings which with words I am unable to describe, therefore I clench my fists and cry. Is it because I am behaving like a baby? No, I am human! Humans cry to express their emotions, young or old. Sometimes I am like a dam, emotions build up so I burst out and spill water from my eyes. These are tears, things shed not just by babies. 

Sometimes when I cry, people say things such as "why are you acting like a baby?". I fail to understand what crying has to do with babies, everyone is capable. Society builds us into robots, however unlike the tin man, we have hearts that must be heard. Pain is the demon you cannot sleep away. Emotions come from the brain and i am always told to use my brain, how? I am expected to come up with words to explain whats in my brain yet those words aren't anywhere to be found in my brain. All I can feel and think of is that powerful emotion, it is nameless and faceless. How is one supposed to describe the features of an invisible man? 

Being told to conceal what you feel because the way you're dealing with it is apparently like a baby, is frustrating. Telling someone to stop feeling is like telling a pair of lungs to stop breathing. The soothing pain of crying will not make me weak, I shall not be branded a baby due to the emotions that spill from deep within my soul. If I lift the hatch to the door on my tired, battered heart and release tears, then let them run free down my face and do not judge the path they take down my cold cheek. 

One last word of advice, never in your lifetime, be afraid or ashamed to cry. Whether you're old or young, male or female, let it go. Feelings are like a blocked nose, if you keep sniffing it all back up inside, things will only get worse. If a person ever calls you a baby, think nothing of it because you've grown and so has the pressure of life. Just cry. Act "like a baby". Express yourself in any way. Babies are smart for communicating in ways other than words. So yes, I am being "like a baby", I am a strong person and tears won't ever contradict that. 

Author's Note

Hope you can relate to this.