It may involve tears. Repentance is no pleasure trip. It can be extremely painful to admit that you have been wrong. It means working with God in killing a part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. But weeping is only one of the emotions associated with true repentance.
Delirious joy is a fruit of true repentance.
Joy over the wonder of sins forgiven, of God's loving acceptance of me, of new power cleansing and transforming my wicked heart. The whole life of a Christian should be one of repentance. First you must truly want to repent. You must avoid that caricature of repentance that is merely a cover for sorrow over consequences. Esau is given as an example of false repentance.