Crying

It's incredible how liberating crying can be.  To keep everything bottled up inside for hours, days, weeks even... to feel as though you're carrying a mountain on your shoulders and Niagara Falls held at bay right behind your eyelids.  But then suddenly, it breaks.  The warm salty liquid of your tears goes running down your face.  They coat your cheeks and fall to the ground.  Washing away, tear by tear, all the hurt, confusion, hopelessness, despair.. every single emotion that had been stored behind the mask of your face day by day.  Suddenly they're all gone, and you feel relief wash over you as your burden feels lighter.  Even if it isn't, even if nothing at all has changed in your circumstances, at least the mountain of weight is gone.  You're liberated.