Why are we crying? Detailed answer

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Why are we crying?

Most of us believe that we only cry when we are sad. But did you know that a person actually cries about 250 million times during their lifetime?

Let's see how it goes. Our eyelids are a kind of curtains of skin folds that can be raised and lowered with the help of muscles. These curtains move so fast that they do not interfere with our view at all. We don't even notice it. In fact, our eyelids open and close every 6 seconds.

Each eye has a special gland located at the outer corner of the eye, ducts through which tears enter the upper eyelid, channels through which tears flow from the outside of the eye.

With each blink, the tear ducts open to moisten the cornea of the eye. But, from a mechanical point of view, when we cry, the same thing happens.

Have you watched people laugh to tears? The reason for this is that with strong laughter, the muscles squeeze the glands, and tears begin to flow.

Everyone knows what can make us cry without causing us any sad emotions. Of course it's an onion! It contains special volatile substances that irritate our eyes. Tears also perform a kind of protective function, washing out this irritant. The same thing happens with smoking. We involuntarily cry, protecting, clearing our eyes.

And finally, why do we cry when we experience sad emotions? Man is the only creature that cries to express emotions. Just a thought can make a sensual person cry about it.

This is what happens when our emotions don't find expression in words. They are looking for a way out in the mechanism of the formation of tears. This is a reflex that does not depend on us. Its reason is that our body itself manifests those feelings that we cannot or do not want to express in words.

Author: Likum A.

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Aristotle was one of the prominent people in Ancient Greece. He belongs to the greatest philosophers who ever lived. Aristotle studied with the philosopher Plato for about twenty years. When Plato died, Aristotle began to develop his own teaching method. He was interested in almost every problem that a person faced. How does the mind work? How can we figure out what is true and what is false? What form of government is best?

Aristotle tried to find answers by observing the world around him and collecting facts. He believed that every event had a logical explanation and was one of the first to draw conclusions from research and observation. Aristotle opened his own school, called the Lyceum. He urged every person to find their place in the world by knowing the possibility of living a good and useful life. He believed in the "golden mean" - life in the middle between two extremes.

It is said that Aristotle wrote about four hundred books on astronomy, physics, poetry, zoology, oratory, biology, logic, politics, government, and ethics. The works of Aristotle have been studied by people all over the world for hundreds of years. No one person has influenced the thinking of so many people for so long.

Modern scientists have discovered that many of the observations made by Aristotle over two thousand years ago are still correct today. He showed us that every statement must be accompanied by evidence and that the basis of knowledge is facts.

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