After seeing their stories, I felt undeserving of crying

Sept. 18, 2025, 4:10 a.m. Essays

There's a saying: Those who have wept the deepest midnight, are worthy of talking about life.

By the time you reach a certain age, you'll realize that crying late at night is nothing. Everyone has experienced it.

Because life is really bitter. You'll always have a moment of late-night crying, it's just a matter of who experiences it earlier or later.

There's always a moment when we lose something truly important. We realize too late that it can't be recovered. We discover how awful we are, and we're filled with regret…

And because life is so difficult, we should comfort each other. We yearn for love and to be loved.

The moment you see someone crying, even if it's a stranger, you get an opportunity to offer kindness and love.

A reader told me that she once cried in the freezing, snowy streets of Russia, and her tears instantly turned to ice. A stranger old man gave her a chocolate bar.

'The weather will get warmer and the flowers will bloom. You will get better.'

I never believe that all damage can be repaired. But when I cried in the snowy night, someone would say to me, 'Don't cry, don't cry.'

Early spring and her husband went for a walk with the dog, and they saw a middle-aged man sitting on the side of the road. We thought he was drunk.

That man took off his glasses and sobbed, 'Thank you, I wasn't drinking, I just didn't want to go home.'

Her husband said, 'Guys, everyone has their own difficulties. Go home and talk to your wife, there's no insurmountable obstacle.'

That man burst into tears: 'It's so difficult, so difficult!'

Late at night, I just want to eat a 50-dollar hot pot, but I'm too poor to afford it. I held my ex-boyfriend and cried in the street.

I couldn't bear it anymore, and he didn't say anything, just held me.

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@vv

1860 days of long-distance relationship ended when she deleted all his traces on her phone during a firmware update. She threw away all his things. She really thought that would be okay.

But on a late night before her trip, she suddenly found his socks in a drawer. He probably doesn't even remember them.

She held onto a pair of socks and cried.

@Constance

December 31, 2015, we celebrated the new year together.

When she got off the last subway, she saw a man lying on the ground crying. She said, 'Happy New Year, everyone! Be happy this New Year!' and then she got off the bus.

I don't know what she was going through, but I thought she must have been crying in her heart at that moment.

I have a serious eating disorder and I often binge eat.

One day I ate all the snacks in one breath, and I was miserable because of my stomach pain in the afternoon.

When I got home from school that evening, I couldn't help but cry, I just couldn't stand it.

I felt so bad, why can't I eat a good meal, why do I care so much about my appearance?

@ I .head

Her brother was diagnosed with a malignant tumor and underwent surgery. After six hours, the doctor brought out the severed bone to show her.

I didn't dare to cry in front of my mother, so I called my and cried for an hour, then waited for her to come out.

My mom traveled from Jiangxi by train to Kunming for twenty-four hours. She stayed overnight at the station, and I called her to find a hotel for the night. She said, 'I don't want to spend money.'

Later, when I came home, she suddenly found me crying in the street.

She didn't want to spend money to stay in a hotel, and I still played on my phone.

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It was just those few seconds, and I cried.

I work in a 24-hour convenience store, and I often see drunk people sitting in the store for a long time. After drinking, they pay with alcohol on their breath, and I often advise them not to drink and go home. Many people respond that it's difficult to go home.

One boy came several times, wearing a white and neat shirt, and he wrapped himself in a dirty outer jacket. On one day, he bought a bowl of noodles and a bottle of beer and called his family to report that everything was okay. After hanging up the phone, he kept eating noodles, and I saw him shaking his back.

Her grandfather, a disabled veteran, was poisoned with carbon monoxide at home after he passed away, and he couldn't take care of himself, and he couldn't speak clearly. Every time his grandmother pushed him to buy vegetables, he would ask me to buy something to eat. His grandmother said that grandfather wouldn't buy anything unless he was asked. Then the grandfather would smile happily and look at me. Later, I went to study abroad, and when I came home, my grandfather saw me smiling and smiling, and he cried.

At the railway station, a young girl hugged her boyfriend and cried. Her boyfriend hung up the phone, and she still held the phone and cried.

Two girls held their heads and cried for a while. They patted each other on the back and got up to go home.

At night, I came home and realized I hadn't brought my key. I ran back to the company and found a student crying in a corner.

Later I learned that she had just lost her father, and she had just broken up with her boyfriend. All the pain came to her at once.

Go to hell all the girls should be armored, girls should be flowers.

I'm in my second year and I eat dinner with a classmate from the countryside. When we opened the door, I saw her sitting on the floor of her dormitory, with tears in her eyes and her hair was wet with tears. Later she told me that she hadn't received a scholarship, and she had failed to meet the conditions of working at the construction site for her parents.

When I got my admission letter to Guangzhou University that night, I flipped through the phone album and saw the phoenix flowers my father took before he died.

I and my father had planned to watch the basketball game in Guangzhou, but I was admitted, and my father was no longer here.

I hid in the toilet, tears came down non-stop. I felt so bad, why can't I eat a good meal, why do I care so much about my appearance.

@ I .head