Persuasive Essay About To Cry

To Cry

I cry easily and it has taken me a long to come to terms with that. Last trimester in a screenwriting class and during a critique of our screenplays, my turn came to read my screenplay aloud to the class. This was my first time reading to an audience and having spent all night working on it I was both apprehensive and excited. As I read, someone whispered to the person sitting beside him that my writing was terrible. I heard him and I heard the other agree. After I finished reading, the class began to critique me mercilessly saying things such as “This is terrible”, “this doesn’t make sense, and why is this here”. I wanted and expected constructive criticism, not a disrespectful interrogation. While my classmates were attacking my work, my stomach was sinking and tears began forming in my eyes. After several painful minutes one last student uttered a final condemnation. “It’s really unstructured and I think you should start a new topic”. My feelings were hurt, my heart was throbbing, and my eyes were blurred with glinting tears. I started sobbing right in front of everyone a spectacle of overwhelming emotion for everyone to see. It was at this point that I decided I was not going to hold back any emotion. These insensitive students are going to understand the implications of

The ability to let emotions go allows me to cleanse the pain within me, washing away the sadness and insecurity that builds up during stressful situations. Crying is really, in my opinion, an empathetic response to pain and an intense display of self reflection rooted in truth. Crying is an important part of who I am because it forces me into a state of serious honesty, a place where I don 't have to hide emotion or who I am as a person. Even though the act of crying may reveal potential insecurity and instability, when I cry I feel a sense of freedom and safety in the essence of vulnerability