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May Photo A Day : Day 6 : Broken

After I had vetoed a lot of ideas for broken things (a broken toy, a broken Jenga tower, a broken handle of the Grinder jar, a cracked glass…), I remembered once reading about Broken Cookie Syndrome and it had fascinated me then.

Do you remember that you did something small, for example broke a glass, and you burst into tears. Your family or friends told you, “It is only a glass!” But your tears just didn’t stop. They kept gushing out like the water from a dam. Of course, it was not about that broken glass. It was the reservoir of pent up emotions inside you, the back log of stored emotions that found its release through the broken glass. And after a good cry, you felt better. Ever experienced that? Well, that was the Broken Cookie Syndrome you felt!

So, I immediately broke a cookie and clicked it.
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This post is a part of May Photo A Day.

54 Responses

  1. Like Reema even I was not aware of this!! SO very glad that you wrote about this!! Nice concept!! Rather informative 😀

  2. Good to know about the broken Cookie syndrome, even I have never heard of it. It is true we always feel so much better and refreshed after crying, it is always a good theraphy

  3. I suddnly got the idea of fortune cookie on seeing this but I dont hav one to break 🙂 It also reminded me – thats how the cookie crumbles
    and broken cookie syndrome- GOSH good to know it and I SUFFER from it badly 🙂 Many dont believe it

    1. You are very imaginative, Afshan 🙂
      Crying is good and therapeutic… dont keep up the pent up emotions inside for long! Stay happy and stay blessed 🙂

  4. Broken Cookie Syndrome. Hmm, I learnt a new thing today. 🙂 You’re taking up a lot of challenges these days. I am not complaining though, after all I get to visit this blog daily. 😀

    1. A lot of are doing this challenges together… so it is fun chatting with each other, visiting each other’s blogs and seeing what they have clicked or written for the day’s prompt, made some new friends… we are having a good time doing these challenges. Thanks for your visits Shilpa 🙂

  5. I loved the way you correlated today’s theme with the broken cookie syndrome, Shilpa! Beautifully worded and a pic to go with it 🙂

  6. brought to my mind a phrase from ..i think..”Bruce Almighty”(?)

    “Ah well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles”.

    and interesting to read about the broken cookie syndrome…didn’t know about that!!

  7. Ahh, so there is a name for the calm after the storm. How cool Shilpa, you know a lot of these things 🙂 🙂
    What other interesting syndromes do you know? I’ll be glad to read that too

    1. LOL 😀 Nothing of that sort, Bhavya… My nephew used to throw in a lot of tantrums as a toddler, so was reading about toddler tantrums … the reasons and how to handle them etc… and came across this BC Syndrome. It was a fascinating new thing and hence it stuck in the memory and remembered it when I was racking my brain for ‘broken’ ideas! :))

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