I'm a Cryer

I will be the first to admit that I am an emotional person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve (so much so that I can't hide how I am feeling from anyone--even my students can tell how I feel and they don't even know me.)

I don't know how this all started but I do know that I have always been the one to feel bad for others first, to cry for others first, to laugh for others first and so on. This goes for stray animals, too, by the way--I had a stray dog on my porch the other day and I tried to feed it and give it water because it looked so damn sad and lonely. I thought about that poor dog all weekend and I am still wondering where she went and who could have let her go. This is also how we ended up with many outside cats when I was a kid--I got attached after thirty seconds and was begging to keep them. This is also the reason that TJ will not, under any circumstance, let me go to the animal shelter or even PetSmart on Saturdays (since they do adoptions there, too).

Back to the point at hand...because I am so emotional I cry. A lot. About a lot of things. I'm not ashamed to admit it (and you, in the back laughing at me--back off!)

Today I am here to admit...

• The last book (besides the new Harry Potter) that made me cry was Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate.
• The last movie to make me cry was Reign Over Me.
• The movie that will make me cry every time is Moulin Rouge.
• The last television show to make me cry was Grey's Anatomy when Denny died.
• The song that will make me cry every time I hear it is "Strangers in the Night" by Sinatra
• I have cried at every Pearl Jam concert I have been to (which would be five).

So, what about you? Are you a cryer? Are you stoic? Do you hold it in or let it out? What was the last thing that made you cry? (don't be ashamed to admit it--we all cry sometimes, right?)