Bleeding Hearts

I think all women ask themselves from time
to time, "am I going crazy?" the feelings
that accompanies the wide range of emotions
overwhelms you and you feel out of control.
And you feel like you're the only one who
happens to play the part well enough that
the world doesn't notice.
But you're not going crazy or are crazy,
neither am I. Its hard being a woman
sometimes.

This is from on Why Do Women Cry?
http://positivethoughts.com/whydowomencry.htm

Why do Women Cry?  

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are
you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she
told him. "I don't understand," he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said, "And
you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why
does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his
dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.
Finally he asked God. He said, "God, why
do women cry so easily?"

God said:

"When I made the woman she had to be
special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry
the weight of the world, yet gentle enough
to give comfort. --I thought this line was very graceful.
I gave her an inner strength to endure
childbirth and the rejection that many
times comes from her children. --how true,
I agree
I gave her a hardness that allows her to
keep going when everyone else gives up,
and take care of her family through sickness
and fatigue without complaining. -- Uh....
I gave her the sensitivity to love her
children under any and all circumstances,
even when her child has hurt her very badly.
-- I couldn't agree more
I gave her strength to carry her husband
through his faults and fashioned her from
his rib to protect his heart. --???
I gave her wisdom to know that a
good husband never hurts his wife, but
sometimes tests her strengths and her
resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
--Boy does he test! ;-) nah, Jacks a good
man.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This
is hers exclusively to use whenever it is
needed." -- I like that, no permission needed.

"You see my son," said God, -blah, blah,
blah "the beauty of a woman is not in
the clothes she wears, the figure that
she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in
her eyes, because that is the doorway to
her heart - the place where love resides."
--this last section lays on it on way too
thick even for me.
 
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi