The Tracks of My Tears
March 5th 2007 12:53
One Sunday evening a few weeks ago Daz and I were watching some Smallville on dvd. A very sad episode came on and as per usual I had the frog in my throat and tears streaming down my eyes. Now it's a long standing joke in my family about me and crying, I'll cry at anything even if it isn't meant to make you cry. At the end of the episode Daz looks up and isn't surprised to see me crying (quietly though as I've perfected it now that if I'm quick enough that nobody knows I've been crying) and gives me that smile of his. So we get to talking about emotions and things on the tv, books, comics and so on that make you... ok me cry... and funny stories we have about my crying episodes.
Daz' favourite is the Buffy The Vampire Slayer story. I can't remember which season of Buffy it was but it was (and if you haven't watched Buffy and don't want to be spoiled stop reading now!!!) the one where Willow and Oz split up. Daz and I had an agreement that neither of us would watch the next episode without the other there but this particular Saturday morning while Daz was at work I just couldn't help myself, hey I was bored and my man wasn't around so sue me! Oh my God was it a sad episode, that Bas... Oz cheated on Willow and her poor heart was broken so badly (turns out so badly that she became a lesbian). As can be expected I was in tears. So what better thing to do next than phone up Daz and cry down the phone to him. He picks up the phone and is really concerned at first as I'm sobbing so badly I can hardly talk. Somehow I manage to say to him "It's so sad, Oz broke Willow's heart." his reply? "You watched Buffy without me?!? How could you do that?!?!" talk about give me a guilt complex! Daz' version of the story is much longer and funnier than mine but he's asleep in bed at the moment so I won't disturb him.
Another 'Sarah moment' was when we were watching this documentary about this lion cub and her upbringing and eventual release back into the wild. This was many many years ago before Callum was even a thought in our minds and I was working full time. Towards the end of the documentary they showed this Lion cub who was now this beautiful lioness being introduced to this pride there was one male lion and two lionessess. The Lion was more than happy to add another lioness to his pride (typical male!) but the females weren't and so attacked her. At this moment in the documentary I had to go and check our dinner and dish it up thus missing the end of the programme and what happened to the lioness. Daz flatly refused to tell me. After a couple hours of pestering he broke down and after making me promise him no matter what I wouldn't cry he told me... sadly her wound from the two lionessess got infected and they had to put her to sleep... and yes I cried.
I don't know why I'm so easy to cry, my parents aren't, my grandparents aren't and it seems not many of my siblings are. Daz says it's an endearing part of my personality but he desperately hopes our monkey monster hasn't inherited this trait from me.
Surely I can't be alone in my tears. So please tell me I'm not and share your stories.
Daz' favourite is the Buffy The Vampire Slayer story. I can't remember which season of Buffy it was but it was (and if you haven't watched Buffy and don't want to be spoiled stop reading now!!!) the one where Willow and Oz split up. Daz and I had an agreement that neither of us would watch the next episode without the other there but this particular Saturday morning while Daz was at work I just couldn't help myself, hey I was bored and my man wasn't around so sue me! Oh my God was it a sad episode, that Bas... Oz cheated on Willow and her poor heart was broken so badly (turns out so badly that she became a lesbian). As can be expected I was in tears. So what better thing to do next than phone up Daz and cry down the phone to him. He picks up the phone and is really concerned at first as I'm sobbing so badly I can hardly talk. Somehow I manage to say to him "It's so sad, Oz broke Willow's heart." his reply? "You watched Buffy without me?!? How could you do that?!?!" talk about give me a guilt complex! Daz' version of the story is much longer and funnier than mine but he's asleep in bed at the moment so I won't disturb him.
Another 'Sarah moment' was when we were watching this documentary about this lion cub and her upbringing and eventual release back into the wild. This was many many years ago before Callum was even a thought in our minds and I was working full time. Towards the end of the documentary they showed this Lion cub who was now this beautiful lioness being introduced to this pride there was one male lion and two lionessess. The Lion was more than happy to add another lioness to his pride (typical male!) but the females weren't and so attacked her. At this moment in the documentary I had to go and check our dinner and dish it up thus missing the end of the programme and what happened to the lioness. Daz flatly refused to tell me. After a couple hours of pestering he broke down and after making me promise him no matter what I wouldn't cry he told me... sadly her wound from the two lionessess got infected and they had to put her to sleep... and yes I cried.
I don't know why I'm so easy to cry, my parents aren't, my grandparents aren't and it seems not many of my siblings are. Daz says it's an endearing part of my personality but he desperately hopes our monkey monster hasn't inherited this trait from me.
Surely I can't be alone in my tears. So please tell me I'm not and share your stories.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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It was tiny and fearful. Really thin... she said that she had been walking by her place on the farm and heard this noise... she found this overturned bathtub and the tiny kitten paw reaching out of the drain.
Someone had left the kitten under there to die, so she rescued it and took it to the vet... it was malnourished, but got better with her care.
That made me sad - but then really, really angry...
Comment by katyzzz
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I wish I could cry, buckets and buckets and buckets, but I do not seem able to.
I guess it is like many things, there is a spectrum, I'm at one end and you're at the other.
I guess we just all have to learn to cope, however we express it, as with all other things, and for each of us it's an individual journey.
katyzzz
Comment by Mrs M
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I also remember as a little girl crying when at Simon & Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" I think the film clip showed an animated bunny get lost and not be able to find his way home and then it got dark, which was really sad.
Okay, I see a theme here. Thanks for the therapy session Sarah
Love & stuff
Mrs M
Comment by Ash
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Flashes of memories
Ah yeah I shed tears in movies too...thank goodness I have long hair...it comes in very handy to twirl around in front of my face because I also get ripped to shreds about it
shed on
ash
Comment by Candice
I'm one who cries at sad movies, though I'm not a huge crier in 'real life.' My first cry over a movie was when I was in Prep watching 'Dot and the Kangaroo'. My mum had to carry me around the schoolyard until I recovered. My latest cry over a movie was 'Blood Diamond.'
Comment by Lilla
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... I never used to cry at much... life was pretty good... or I was delusional, one of the two?
These days though, now that I am older and wiser... and pre-menopausal? Boo hoo, at everything *lol* The beauty of everything affects me so deeply now, sometimes it hurts... truly, know that you are not alone... you just set them little drops free...
I enjoyed your story and think you're terrible for not waiting btw *chuckle*
Lilla ~
Comment by DuskDevi
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I cry over commercials!
I cry when I laugh.
I cry when my sports team loses.
I cry when they win!...this year especially...
I cry at the movies (my children were most embarrassed at the end of 'LOTR' 3...when Frodo leaves, but then I cried when I first read the books -I was 10-)
I cry when I read (the end of Tandia and oh God...'Shawshank Redemption'...)
I cry when a loved one is sad.
I cry at injustice.
....and this makes me sound like such a...crier!!
Thing is, I'm not. I very rarely cry for myself. I feel no need to.
Crying is just a way to clear out the system...an emotional detox.
If you can't cry, if you don't cry....the system gets blocked.
I wish for you many many tears...of laughter more than sadness...the Buffy story certainly had me crying!!
Be well Sarah.
DuskDevi
Comment by KylieW
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It's not usually the really sad stuff that chokes me up. It's more the really sweet and endearing things that gets me going. As Dusk mentioned in her comment, the end of Shawshank Redemption. Oh my god, I cried buckets when I read that movie. Especially the end where the two characters meet up again.
Comment by Sarah White
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Cibbuano, That's is so sad, I can never understand why people are so cruel like that. I remember years ago when we were on a family holiday in Ireland (we have a farmhouse out there) and one of my sisters saw this guy throwing a bag tied up into the local river and heard these animal noises. Somehow she managed to get the bag out and when she opened it up there were 3 kittens in it. It's a farming community out there and the excuse was that they couldn't afford more mouths to feed. Luckily the farm down the road from us took all of the kittens on. We wanted to find the guy and hit him for his actions. Cruel.
Katyzzz, so I have you to blame for my emotional state. *joke*. It's funny how there isn't much of an inbetween with crying. I wish I wasn't so tearful but try as hard as I can I can't stop them. This Sunday we watched The Fox and the Hound (which was a Mother's Day present for me). I'd never seen it before and I had tears from the start. Oh well I don't think my boys saw them.
MrsM, We're like sisters in crying. I cry at the beginning and middle and end of ET, but it is my favourite film. As for Bright Eyes we recently got it from iTunes and it made me remember the video, just the song along is emotional.
Ash, Where would we be without our long hair,. I also wear glasses which come in handy too.
Candice, How long was your Mum carrying you round the playground? I've heard good things about Blood Diamond, I'll be prepared for the tears now. Thank you.
Lilla, I think a good cry is good for us all, but maybe not as much as I cry. And I couldn't help myself with Buffy it was just too addictive... and now I'm thinking about how much I miss those early Buffy days and how there is no more Angel to watch. *sigh*
Dusk, you made me cry tears of laughter. Thank you and you put it so beautifully correct about crying. I'm feeling a little sad today as last night I heard that a close friends Dad just had a stroke, her Mum died about one and a half years ago and he's been pining for her since. My friend I can tell is putting a brave face on things but I know how badly this is hurting her and I just want to give her the biggest hug I can but also at the same time I can feel the tears welling up with the sadness of her Father missing her Mother so much. Sorry didn't mean to make anyone feel sad there.
Kylie, I've recently read an article in the National Geographic about these elephants in Zakouma National Park, it is so sad and devasting what is happening and it took me a couple days to read the article because I couldn't handle reading so much in one go.
Comment by Ash
Australian Traveller
Flashes of memories
I hope things are better over at your place.
hugs to you and your friend
ash
Comment by Sarah White
coolgirlsar to the rescue
One Too Many Chocolate Bars
Thank you, we're mostly all better now just have the rotten hayfever to deal with. Big thank yous for the hugs, I'm going to ring my friend tomorrow and see what the hospital told her Dad, hopefully he's got his speech back now. Life is so cruel.
Take Care.
Sarah.