Sob Stories

My crying habits are really weird. First of all, I cry way too much. If you were to ask my friends they would probably tell you that I never cry. I rarely let it happen in public, but I try not to isolate myself either. That means that my mother and Todd can (but probably wouldn't) recount hundreds of instances that they've caught me crying, usually over nothing.
However when I get that deep, dark, depressed feeling inside that makes me want to cry and let it all out, I can never turn on the water works. Which makes me more frustrated and depressed.
So I have a solution. There are four movies that can get me to cry.... No... Bawl.

A Walk To Remember

Dancer In The Dark

Charly

Prayers For Bobby

**SPOILER ALERT** The one common thread in all these movies is that a character always ends up dying. There are plenty of stories out there that I feel like use the death of a character solely to evoke a cheap tear from the audience. However, in these movies it's never death that brings the tears. I'm defiantly not in ANY rush to die, but death doesn't really scare me or make me sad.

Its things like noticing a boy become a man, and a girl achieve all of her dreams.

Its things like watching a mother work her ass off to help her son, and after losing hope, finding out that her efforts were not in vain.

Its things like seeing a husband in denial that his wife is dying and a mother longing for her child just to remember her.

Its things like empathizing with a boy who's mother believes God would make her pick between loving her son, and being a good Christian.

Anyway, if you if you're ever in need of a good cry, you now know where to turn. I wouldn't recommend watching them all in one sitting... it might leave you quite dehydrated.