What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on! - Terry Brooks

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.

There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.