Sun and Rain

Laugh and the world laughs with you...cry and you cry alone.

How true is this saying?, think of all the laughter you have shared with friends, lovers and family, countless minutes or hours....now think of the times that you have been alone and cried. You could believe this phrase means that people are only with you when you are happy, and when your sad they desert you. but this is not always the case. Laughter is infectious and needs others to make it work, it also heals, if you are a little down and then join a group of friends you will find you feel more alive, you smile you laugh and you talk. Think of all the laughter therapy groups that have sprung up over recents years, but there are times when we need to cry and we are not necessarily always alone, there can be people supporting us but we do sometimes need to cry alone. To weep is a personal action that sometimes we need to do in private, a release of pain or heartache, a healing of ourselves. Recently I shut myself in the bathroom and cried for almost an hour, I needed to be alone although my partner was in the house, but he was unable to cope with that need, in that hour I had released some of what had been building up for the last two years, how essential had that hour been, now I´m back to laughing and for sure in the future I will need that time again, and I will probably do it alone but it isn´t because people do not care but in some circumstances they feel unable to help or know what to do to make you feel fine again. The sun is our laughter and the rain our tears.