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Post by Rackinac on Mar 15, 2008 17:36:37 GMT -5
Gah, don't you hate it when the stupidest things make you upset? Even a sad song, a sad picture, a sad book, a sad movie, a sad thought. I was just thinking about this today, for some reason.
I just realised I hate seeing broken toys. I know I had a lot of broken toys when growing up, but that's because I would buy them broken. I, don't know, felt bad for them or something because no kid wants a broken toy, so I would buy them all the time. I have a plushie bee with one wing, a dinosaur with a missing arm, a tiger with a ripped tail, a snake with hundreds of holes in it, another dinosaur with one button eye, ect. And I just realised I still act the same way... but with different things. I always want to buy the most deformed pet, whether they be silly looking, old, or sick. The former is just because I feel it's unique, but the two latter ones because I know they won't live long but raising them will make me feel better. Even with clothes, I buy the shirt that's in the largest pile because no one wants it. Or, ugly shoes. I have a thing with ugly shoes. I need to buy them, otherwise I'll freak out and go back to the store to buy them. It's impulsive. I'm such a weirdo, I'm tearing up talking about it.
Also, I can take blood, guts, and other horrors in any movie. In fact, I enjoy it. It makes me giggle. Comedy is dead, but horror, now that's funny. But anything that happens after the death kills me. Whether someone holds their hand, cries, or even if the skip to the funeral I start tearing up. It's just everyone else that makes me sad, not the person dying or is dead. Another weird thing about me, how silly.
Oh, and Jurassic Bark from Futurama. And usually things with animals don't make me sad, but the music and ending just got to me. Luck of the Fryish, too.
So yeah, I was just thinking about it for some reason. Discuss!
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Post by Toshi on Mar 16, 2008 11:40:49 GMT -5
This isn't a "stupid thing", but I tear up when I look at photos of relatives who are not with us today. Primary examples being my Granddad and Grannie. It's just that feeling you get inside when you look at them in photos with you, and you just think to yourself "they're not with us anymore". It makes me fester up in my eyes to a point where I'm gonna breakdown. My Granddad passed away when I was around 10 or 11, and my Grannie passed away a few years ago now when I was 15 or 16. It's a long time now, but it's just so upsetting to know that two of the most wonderful people on this planet are no longer here.
Drawing away from that, I do get that same feeling with broken toys. I had a Transformer toy (the one known as Jazz, who was destroyed, or "killed" off in the movie), he was my favourite toy back in the days, and I played with it for hours and hours, but I fell one day and since he was in my hand, it broke my fall, and in the sacrifice, its arm and leg snapped off. I was in tears for hours after that happened, my favourite toy broken, and I couldn't play with it. Same for a toy BMX bike I had once, remember the trend with those finger bikes, where you used your fingers to impersonate a rider and pull off tricks? I had one of those, and again, I played for hours with that thing, but during an argument with my brother, he smashed it to pieces in his rage. I still have those toys at my Dads place, I saw them when I was there for his birthday the other week, and seeing them just.. gawd, it was a sad sight..
While on the subject at being at my Dads, seeing old report cards from my first school was an experience. Mine and my brothers old bedroom is being used to just stack all random stuff that my Dad has, and in one of the drawers, it was full of old school exercise books. I actually read through every book I had written in, as well as the school reports from Year 1, 2 and 3. It was such a wonderful thing to see, all my work from 13 - 15 years ago, it just had to shed a tear.
Drawings and books intend to give me sadness. For the books, not just because it had a sad ending, but knowing it was the end of the story. I dunno, it's a feeling I have when I finish a book, knowing there's no more to the story now, so it makes me upset and tearful. Silly I know. For drawings, I've done some pretty deep comic stories and drawings in my time, and reading them today still makes me tear up also. I've never been one for writing, but the script in some comics I do really get me in the soft spot, same for most drawings I do, whether it's of Toshi saying "sorry", or fallen in battle as a result of a failure.
I think I've written enough.
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Post by Twi on Mar 16, 2008 14:19:43 GMT -5
 ='( EDIT: IN B4 MOOT |
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Post by Moot on Mar 16, 2008 14:20:22 GMT -5
Oh, and Jurassic Bark from Futurama.  You are now depressed. Manually. I know I am :( OH GOD HIVEMIND |
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Post by Yoshi on Mar 16, 2008 15:22:39 GMT -5
Manly Tears.I don't usually react so much to those kinds of sad displays. Whether it's because of the stoic philosophy or my emotionally crippled sociopathy I don't know.
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Post by Toshi on Mar 17, 2008 3:33:29 GMT -5
Manly Tears.I don't usually react so much to those kinds of sad displays. Whether it's because of the stoic philosophy or my emotionally crippled sociopathy I don't know. My god, this really got me.. |
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Post by Yoshi on Mar 17, 2008 6:31:21 GMT -5
Manly Tears.I don't usually react so much to those kinds of sad displays. Whether it's because of the stoic philosophy or my emotionally crippled sociopathy I don't know. My god, this really got me.. Yeah I'll admit it got me too. Some messages carry a certain power with them across cultures and languages. |
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Post by Toshi on Mar 18, 2008 8:18:35 GMT -5
My god, this really got me.. Yeah I'll admit it got me too. Some messages carry a certain power with them across cultures and languages. Indeed, and this is just one of many good examples. It can vary from cancer research adverts, mental disabilities, or just charity adverts fro third world countries. The amount of times I've seen those adverts, just anything where help from us is required, it strikes you when they show you these images of people who are actually suffering from it. |
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Post by teh yoshi on Mar 18, 2008 10:28:35 GMT -5
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Post by Moot on Mar 18, 2008 10:39:25 GMT -5
Indeed, and this is just one of many good examples. It can vary from cancer research adverts, mental disabilities, or just charity adverts fro third world countries. The amount of times I've seen those adverts, just anything where help from us is required, it strikes you when they show you these images of people who are actually suffering from it. I always found those kinds of things to have a minimal effect on me at best, but despite that I still get hung up over the death of a cartoon dog. What the hell |
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Post by Twi on Mar 18, 2008 12:47:25 GMT -5
Indeed, and this is just one of many good examples. It can vary from cancer research adverts, mental disabilities, or just charity adverts fro third world countries. The amount of times I've seen those adverts, just anything where help from us is required, it strikes you when they show you these images of people who are actually suffering from it. I always found those kinds of things to have a minimal effect on me at best, but despite that I still get hung up over the death of a cartoon dog. What the hell But he waited for you. |
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Post by Yoshi on Mar 18, 2008 15:05:47 GMT -5
Oh, man! I saw this lecture in rhetoric class. The footage from the lecture at the university, not the Oprah one. It's an awesome one. |
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Post by red.yoshi on Mar 18, 2008 16:18:24 GMT -5
Manly Tears.I don't usually react so much to those kinds of sad displays. Whether it's because of the stoic philosophy or my emotionally crippled sociopathy I don't know. Oh man, this got me. Love also pulls the tears out of me. |
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Post by Rackinac on Mar 18, 2008 17:08:29 GMT -5
Love also pulls the tears out of me. Oh lawd yes. I hate this. I hate it. "Oh, they're in love! So adorable!" *cries* "Oh no! They're no longer in love!" *cries* No matter the outcome, it makes me cry like a little girl. That and whenever anyone says "They're in Heaven now." They can say anything else, even "I hope their soul rots in the pits of Hell!" and I won't shed a tear, but say Heaven and God drat the waterworks are open. This might be associated with my fear of angels, but I hate it. You should of saw me when I saw the '5 People You Meet in Heaven'. Oh wait, you shouldn't. Damn you, internal happiness! |
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Post by Fluory on Mar 19, 2008 5:26:23 GMT -5
My chemistry teacher told me that I worked well enough in the lab to not need lab partners. I started crying with relief because I hated my lab partners so much. True story. I felt bad for my teacher because it seemed to confuse her, though.
I don't know, I cry at random and stupid things. But I really don't have much empathy for what happens to other people (except family and close friends)/masses of other people/groups of other people. I just don't have it in me to care. I think the reason why stuff in cartoons and books makes me cry is simply because you get a chance to "know" those characters in a way; they're not just random people in the world having a bad day to you.
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Post by Rackinac on Apr 7, 2008 12:44:44 GMT -5
I just noticed Futurama generally makes me sad. Like the valentines day one when Leela was running out of air, so Fry gives his air to her but doesn't tell her. Then she gives him CPR and the candy heart that said 'you leave me breathless' pops out of his mouth. It made me tear up, but more in a 'sooooooo adorable!' way. I don't even need to explain The Sting.
Also, the book Amityville Horror when Danny Lutz saved his sister from the cloaked demon despite him losing 3 fingers because a ghost shut a window on his fingers. It sucks that didn't happen in the movie, but the movie sucked. The book was okay, but not really great. That scene just got to me. I was like 'ohhhhhhhh my god this book sucked but that was epic!' *cries*
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