No Woman No Cry

I cry at stupid things. 

That might come as a surprise. 

I don't think I'm the sort of person who comes off 

like an emotional basket case. 

I'm more the sort who laughs at people's misfortunes

(in a very concerned, caring way obvi). 

Can we all acknowledge that I chose the edited version of this because little Mom reads my blog?

I am such a giver.

People share those Upworthy & Godvine videos on Facebook

with something like "OMG Get the tissues! I BAWLED!"

and it's like a challenge to me. 

I have to prove that I'm not a frail, over-sensitive little rosebud. 

I-am-woman-hear-me-roar, Miss Independent, and all that. 

It's really too bad that I prove myself to be 

a frail, over-sensitive little rosebud every single time. 

I can count on one hand the number of times I haven't teared up at those stupid videos. 

And they're (usually) so stupid!

I am morally outraged that such idiocy can make me cry,

and this outrage fuels the need to keep watching these terrible videos

because  at some point I will defeat my tear ducts and emotionalism. 

The cycle continues.  

This one's mostly nice, 

but still embarrassing to cry about. 

Maybe I was caught on a bad day or something. 

UGH.

This isn't even romantic or sweet or anywhere close to a nice proposal.

It is everyone's nightmare to be on stage and not know what's going on. 

They did that to her on purpose. 

Luckily, this didn't happen to me

because I am vindictive & immature

and I would probably have given him a "maybe"

just to see him nervous & sweaty on live tv.

I am completely mortified that I teared up a bit.  

 

I'm increeeedibly fond of the dog-soldier reunion videos. 

Naturally, I found a whole website devoted to them. 

There's also family-soldier reunion videos,

but the dog ones really do it for me.

I will not apologize for crying at these

because I have a heart and I'm not a psycho.  

I also watched one of Russians doing nice things

like helping old ladies across the street and getting dogs out of rivers

and I teared up. 

NICE THINGS ARE NICE SHUT UP.

It turns out I'm a girl. 

Let's not go crazy, though. 

I'm still not going to tolerate stupidity. 

My icy heart hasn't melted that much. 

Flipside:

I laugh at videos too:

This is the Youtube equivalent of the "I have no idea what I'm doing" meme.