HDN

Well I'm sure you've had good reason to cry.  Absolutely necessary and healthy IMO.

Cry for reasons tragic and frivolous.  In the end, it does help.  A reminder of our humanity.  

I sometimes think about how I'd react when the time comes and my parents pass away. Sometimes I think I'd be stoic about it, and sometimes I think I'd cry a river. A day or two after I admitted my dad to the hospital a week ago, I was on my elliptical in the garage to put in my (almost) daily exercise, and I suddenly started to pray and cried out in tears thinking about him for a couple of minutes. He's back home now and my parents have been staying with us the last few days.

Tears in anger? You're a full blooded Italian all right 😆 Remind me never to piss you off 🤣 Probably the time I was most angry and reacted physically was when I struck out playing slow-pitch softball, and I punched the trunk of my Volvo 264 and left some knuckle indentations. I was 19 at the time and had been in an aircast after more than a month in a hard cast for a nearly broken right ankle (volleyball), and I hadn't touched a bat for a couple of months.

Nowadays, I respond emotionally to music, movies, books -- the arts in general. I surprise myself as I never did so when I was younger. I tell my wife that I'm just still growing and maturing as a person 😇

And @HDN your Metroid reference reminds me of Son #2 who shed some tears playing one of the Gears of War games on Xbox360. His favorite character died, and he cried a little. I think he was like around 13 at the time.