Top 10 Things That Make You Cry

The Top Ten
1 Somebody Dying

Death really is sad. About three years ago, my cousins on my dad's side of the family lost their father, who was our uncle. Their father had been sick with leukemia and was so ill, trying all the treatments he could. Eventually, closer to the end of summer, my family went to visit our cousins and their father to say goodbye to him one last time.

I remember he sat there on the couch with his breathing tube in as we all took turns to talk to him and hold his hand. He was in such pain but still holding on to his life to say goodbye to his loved ones. He would say how much he loved all of us and he knew we would be great in life. Then, after we said our goodbyes, he told his wife to unplug the breathing tube so he could pass away from the pain and leave.

After we left and got home later, my mom got a text from their family saying that he had passed. I remember looking up at the clouds and crying, feeling heartbroken. But I knew that he had passed and was in a better place, Heaven. He was going to the most peaceful place in the world. His death was beautiful and heartbreaking.

Death is very sad and depressing, but death is also beautiful. Not because of how you die, but how you leave the world of struggles knowing you will see your family in heaven one day again. Death is both sad and beautiful, knowing where you will go and who you will see again.

2 Losing a Friend

Losing a friend is hard, trust me. You can't picture your life without a best friend. They're super strong. You admire them. You never forget every ounce of happiness they left in your heart.

You will always have a special place in your heart for them. But if they move or something happens to them, there will be a hole in your heart that will never be filled again. Your heart aches knowing you won't see them, knowing you won't get to laugh at their jokes, knowing you can't skip over a desk in class to ask them for an answer.

It's not a goodbye. This is a see you later, best friend. I miss you ever!

3 Asking Someone Out and Being Told No

At the moment when I expressed my feelings, she gave her answer the next day. It's both happy because she gave her answer so I wouldn't be tortured by the feeling of dread, and sad because of her answer that she doesn't have the same feelings as me. Never would I have thought being friend-zoned and rejected at the same time would be this painful.

And then I sit in the corner and listen to the sound of silence for 40 hours straight.

I remember devoting my heart to someone for two years, and they didn't give theirs. The feeling of rejection, wasting two years waiting for someone, it just tears me down. But remember one thing: you don't need anyone that doesn't need you. That guy, he feels stupid because when he saw me a year later, he thought I was hot, but too late!

4 Being Bullied or Made Fun Of

My school has really nice people, and when they call you this, you know it's a joke. But this happened.
So everyone's favorite teacher is a jokester. He decided to write on the window above the door 'loser' so whenever anyone stood in front of the door, you'd see that. Even the school secretary accidentally fell for it.

My sis got asked out as a prank. She said no, but her friend said yes, and she cried buckets when she got dumped. She was just like, 'Why did he do that? I mean, I didn't do anything wrong.' Then I got asked out as a prank, and I said yes, and he dumped me, so I confronted him! Laugh out loud, he came to my door the next day and apologized.

5 Seeing the One You Love, Loving Someone Else

Whether they are cheating on you or they are an ex that you still have feelings for, seeing them love someone else is one of the most heart-wrenching feelings ever. Sometimes, you have a huge crush on someone, and you fall in love. When you think you are over them, don't be so sure. If you see them devoting their heart to someone else, you realize that a small bit of you still belongs to them. I just broke down that day.

I know that hurts. To see your crush with someone else. Sometimes that's just how things are. You love them, but that person makes them happy. If anyone feels this way, then go tell the one you love that you care. Don't let anything get in the way. Hurry while you still have a chance. The more time you waste, the less of a chance you'll have to ever be with them.

6 Physical Pain

It's actually true. Bee stings are so painful you will actually cry for a long time.

Not as bad as mental pain in my opinion, but can surely make someone cry.

Honestly, I got stung a couple of months ago and cried. Of course, that was my first bee sting.

7 Losing a Pet

My dog's name was Pogui (weird, right?), and he was the best dog any person could have had. I always let him get up on my bed... until that day. He was 13 years old. I found him on his bed. I thought he was sleeping, but he wasn't. His heart stopped beating.

When they took him away, I cried all day. I tried to cry when he was being cremated, but I just couldn't. I still keep his ashes, and every time I remember him, I cry. Just like I'm doing right now. Pogui, I miss you!

A pet is like a loyal friend that is always at your side. They don't see all the flaws that you may see when you look in a mirror. They love you for your personality, so it is very hard to get over the fact that your best friend is now gone.

8 Your Parents Getting a Divorce

Happened when I was 2. My dad hurt my mom, not me though. Then my mom married my stepdad at the end of the year.

7 years later...

My mom is going through a divorce again, with my stepdad. It's going to be finalized next week.

This also happened to me. I finally understood how soul-crushing it was. I'm glad they're still together and they're even thinking about marriage.

It is really hard when you have seen your parents together for so long, and now they are going their own paths.

9 Bad Grades

Sometimes I'll deny it, but I'm a big nerd, so this is my nightmare. I, an unathletic, out-of-shape girl from theater class, played in a soccer game against some of the best in our town, just to get a better grade in gym.

I, the laziest of all people, decided to do a team project by myself after my project sucked. I, a girl who is the opposite of pain-tolerant, accidentally stabbed myself three times trying to finish my final project for theater. I, the emotionless, rock-hard girl, break down at the thought of getting anything below an 85% grade.

10 Failure

I always somehow feel as if I failed someone or something, and it tears me apart.

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11 Missing someone

It really hurts, especially when you can't do anything about it. It also hurts a lot when someone leaves and you miss them, but they're doing just fine without you. You wish you could move on, but you just can't seem to. Like seriously, I'm sorry if this is happening to you.

12 Movies

The 2017 Beauty and the Beast ending actually got me choked up!

I never thought Star Wars would get that sad. We've lost our favorite character.

I cry all the time when I think about the Titanic!

13 Breaking Up

I can't think of anything worse. And seriously, getting turned down by someone you asked out is worse than your parents getting a divorce or someone being really sick, seriously? And I know someone dying is bad, but everyone has to die, right? But some people are lucky enough never to have to face the word divorce.

It's like a death. It's hard to deal with and takes time.

14 Being Proud of Someone

My friend got a main role in a play, and I cried watching her. Oops! And it was during funny scenes.

15 Stress

Stress makes me cry out of nowhere. When I get stressed, I immediately burst out crying. That's how fragile I am.

16 TV Shows

iCarly ending with the super emotional episode iGoodbye.
Big Time Rush ending with the most emotional episode Big Time Dreams.
A.N.T. Farm ending with the episode I never watched.

I get so mad when K.C. Undercover does not show up. I feel like the television is tricking me!

Damn, who would have known that animated characters would make a person so sad?

17 Regret

Regret is hard because you know you can't change the past. But you must still understand that you cannot change it, so instead, move on.

There are way too many things that I regret.

Oh, you mean everything I've ever done?

18 Losing Something Valuable

I have this one stuffed animal that I have had since I was about 3, and I literally cannot sleep without it. This stuffed animal is about the size between my elbow and the tips of my fingers, so about a foot long. As a person with insomnia, it's already hard to sleep, so when my mom takes this stuffed animal away and says, "Just grow up, you don't need this old thing," and throws it away, I will get up at midnight and try to find it.

But for all the people thinking that's gross, I just can't sleep without it, and I need sleep like any other human.

19 Illness

My great-grandpa died of cancer.

20 Music

Happier by Marshmello... the video makes me cry because the dog dies. Even if she gets a new dog, it's not the same.

I saw the music video for Dare You to Move by Switchfoot and just felt like crying. But I'm not a cryer-person.

Ariana Grande's song One Last Time makes me cry, all because of what happened in 2017.

21 Hunger

Today I took the hardest gym test of my life involving too much running. I shook my leg for one to two hours straight, typed for two hours straight, and played in a soccer game only running on:

A chocolate bar
A lemon bar
0 glasses of water
1 cup of coffee

And I didn't cry at all.

22 Terrorism
23 Disappointment

Sometimes I feel like I am a disappointment to my family and friends.

24 Genocide
25 Anxiety

I have a severe anxiety disorder. Like really bad and nobody understands at its like. All of a sudden whatever you were thinking of before completely is blacked out and gone. All you see and imagine is the worst possible things going through your mind and the worst feeling. You feel like you might die. And after you attacks over, all you can do is cry.

I voted for anxiety because sometimes when my mom goes out somewhere I get scared.

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