No more tears. No.

Tears are for when someone dies or a baby on the TV screen cries.

Tears are fine if you're having a bad hair day or when someone somewhere drops a bomb.

Tears are perfect for PMS, even if it comes around once a month, every month, on the dot.

You didn't get promoted at work so it's okay to cry buckets, and all your friends will chip in and take you out for a drink.

You can cry if you lose your credit cards or your favourite pair of shoes.

Tears are fine for everything else under the sun, good or bad, trivial or significant, right or wrong.

But heaven forbid, should you shed tears over a heartbreak. Oh no! That can't be done. That would just make you a loser.

Then you hear the words "Get Over It" even more than a Don Henley fan hears them in an entire lifetime.

For what is heartbreak, really? Apparently, these days, it's something that warrants nothing more than a mere status update or wall post on Fuckbook.

So stop being a loser and moping, be a Twit instead and give the world blow-by-blow accounts of your highly productive and now heartbreak-free life.

And who's telling you this? All the fabulous people who cry over the loss of a designer watch, the shutting down of a shopping mall, and the monthly arrival of PMS or lost cricket matches (as the case may be).

They're not the ones putting on a brave front in the day and then coming home at night, trying to outrun the tears.

The lyrics to a lame song on the radio don't dredge up the stifles building up inside them after weeks and months of being numb.

The mirrors on their walls don't peel away layers of their lives each time they look into them.

They are the ones who don't realise that it's not really the heartbreak you cry over. It's everything that it represents.

You give and take, push and pull, build and strip, and wake up one day to find it all gone.

It's the failure of everything you've held on to for years, a breakdown of the trust you placed outside you, it's the failure of you.

Even though you know it's not permanent and you know that, looking ahead, things will not only get better than they are now but they will get better than they ever were. You still have to cry over this failure, because this is what's happening to you now.

So while the rest of the world is out there updating their online statuses, this is what you're going through. This is your current status.

Even if you're making great progress and moving on in more ways than one, there are times when a voice inside you gets too loud to ignore. It's the voice that reminds you how it felt to be needed and loved.

Even if no one admits this easily, you know that this is the part that hurts the most.