About a week ago, one of my best girls, Zara and I decided we wanted to have a cry party. Yeah you read that right, we decided we no longer wanted to wear our big girl panties. We decided to call this event of ours “wine & whine” because we planned to do our crying over a glass of wine or a bottle, who’s counting? And because I’m extra, I made an invitation for our cry party (don’t judge me)
I don’t know about you but I have no problem crying, case in point is me crying over animation!!! As a child I was encouraged to cry and not in the “go on now, cry and let it all out” way you would expect. Oh no, growing up in a tough love environment, whenever I was crying as a child, my mum would tell them to let me be because crying is good and it washes your eyes. She says my eyes are so white because she allowed me cry as a child -_-.
A Harvard research says that tears work like a purgative, draining off and purifying us. Researchers have also found that crying releases feel-good chemicals like oxytocin and endogenous opioids, also known as endorphins which are good for you. And I dare say that after our wine & whine session we did feel good. It felt good to get in a good rant with listening ears and a bottle of good wine around. I hope with these few points of mine I’ve been able to convince you to take off your big girl/boy panties, fold them or fling them (whatever works for you), get a glass or a bottle of wine/ice cream or whatever and cry. Invite loved ones and whine about family, love life, work, finances, politics whatever. I promise you’ll feel a whole lot better at the end of the night.
Fergie lied, big girls DO cry and boy does it feel good. So go ahead and host your own wine & whine night *wink*.
