Social Phenomena

I tried this excercise today and figured i'd share it with you.
Think about different social phenomena that you generally perceive as natural in your everyday life. Pick one and discuss alternative ways your daily life might proceed if this element had been different through out history.

-Greeting friends and close relatives with a kiss in the cheek
- Better education, better job
- Eating spagetti with a fork
- Cereal with milk
- Crying due to death or when something really hurts emotionally or physically.
- Wearing black at a funeral
- Wearing a white dress for your wedding
- Writing with your right hand
- Wearing gloves, hat, scarf during the winter season.
- Rural neighborhood safer/ Urban neighborhood dangerous.

The act of crying is natural to me, whether it's crying at a funeral, your mother punishing you as a child, falling and breaking a bone or simply because love hurts. Crying due to all these reasons are normal and natural to my everyday life. If the act of tears didn't exist a lot of things would change. For example, at a funeral wearing white or bright colors, laughing rather than crying. If instead of laughing at a joke during a comedy skit everyone cried. Just the thought of it doesn't seem right to me. I guess it's because society is use to connecting tears primarily with sadness and laughter with joy. However, some people may say, "I'm crying because I am happy, 'tears of joy." For example, the birth of a child, or crying at a wedding or your wedding because you're marrying the person of your dreams.

Nonetheless, the majority of the time when someone cries it is usually because of something bad and when someone laugh it's because of something good that happened to them. As for me, I am a very emotional person so I cry even for the little things in life. Not being able to under any circumstance would be bazaar.