I’m a sap
This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for reasons I can’t get into right now. That’s part of the reason I look like shiite in that picture. The other part is that I just finished watching "The Notebook" for the first time. Yes, I’m a sappy guy. It was a fantastic movie and super sad, but happy at the same time, kind of. When you mix that with the fact that I’m overworked and my emotions are on a freakin’ joy ride ( not like crying basket case mind you, more to the happy one minute, pissed off the next sort of thing). I mean, I live life like that, I’m a musician for crying out loud. We’re all like that.
Anyway, so we watched the notebook and it just wore me out. That’s why I look like this. Look at those glassy red eyes. You might be able to see the white dog
hair on my fleece where I was hugging our lab Barley like he was my son. It’s got me relishing how much I love my wife and how great our marriage is. I mean, it’s not like other marriages I see around. It is really more than what I see, but maybe that’s just me. I want to write our story down. We have a great story. I could like read it to her when we’re old.
Is anybody else affected by movies like this? Why am I feeling like I’m a pawn in the hands of Hollywood. Well, they actually did get me thinking about how much I love my wife. That can’t be all bad.
Uh… yeah… well… compared to me, you look like you just walked out of a GQ ad, so it’s kind of hard for me to be sympathetic here.
I am not emotionally affected by movies, yet there is ONE film that somehow managed to do just that.
It was a made-for-TV film starring Mark Harmon called “After the Promise.” A man’s wife is a Christian Scientist and thus cannot go to a doctor when she gets sick. After she dies, the court take’s his kids away because they feel not seeking medical assistance when you are deathly sick is irresponsible. What follows is a long, drawn-out battle for Mark Harmon to get all his kids back. When, at the very end, he finds the last one… well, I totally fell apart. It was shocking how deeply I was hit by this little nothing of a film (hey, I LAUGHED at “Beaches!”).
A few years ago I caught “After the Promise” again and the same dang thing happened. I have no idea why this movie affects me like this, when far more manipulative films don’t.
Hey Dave, thanks for the comment. It’s kind of funny. I used to be pretty hard hearted, then, in 2000, I had a pretty powerful salvation experience and since then it doesn’t take much to get me worked up. I mean, I break down to the Circle of Life at the beginning of Lion King for crying out loud.