I’ve been taking books to work recently, to read when it’s slow. Books that I love. Books that I’ve loved for years. Books that I love so much that reading them makes me cry. Every time.
You would think by now I would know better than to make myself cry AT work. …. in front of people. With whom I really should maintain a professional demeanor.
And it’s not just at work – when I traveled to England I took my laptop and a couple DVDs to watch on the plane trips. Why would I take DVDs of a television show that every episode makes me cry. … Why would I do that when I was sitting a mere 4″ from my row-neighbor?
In fact, my plan is to re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I cry throughout that book (sometimes at the end of HP5, usually at the end of HP6, but always throughout HP7). I read the bulk of HP7 at work and somehow feel like I didn’t enjoy it thoroughly since I was concentrating so hard on NOT crying.
I think it gave me a headache.
This week I took The Federalist Papers to read at work. No danger in getting emotional over that, is there?
And my co-worker tells me as I get older it’ll only get worse.
I don't know Amy, when Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 78 starts talking about how judges are the bulwarks to protect against an overreaching legislature, I get a little choked up.
But maybe that's just because I'm a lawyer. Or maybe I'm just very passionate about checks and balances.
The books you let me borrow better not make me cry, because I am huge CRY baby. And it kills me to hear that it gets worse with age….oh man….I'll probably be doomed to cry everyday for the rest of my life.
It's true. I cry at almost everything. This morning on the Today show I cried when the Rice Depot got millions of dollars in donations from different companies. We're talking water works. I had to turn the channel.
True. It just gets worse. I was trying to read the autobiography of Sidney Poitier (The Measure of a Man) in the waiting room at the doctor's office. I was crying thru every page, so I gave up on reading in public. I want to read the Shack, but I've heard it's pretty emotional so maybe I'll take it on vacation…we'll see.