I am too sensitive. If I feel like someone is being mean to me (even on this site), I can be driven to tears (even if I don’t always show it). While this can be seen as a negative trait, I actually think it can be a positive one: It means I care. It means I listen. It means I take people seriously.
Other things that make me cry:
I feel deeply, so even when I laugh, I can end up crying of laughter. This feels amazing.
Certain movie scenes that touch me deeply can make me cry… It’s one of those “Awwwww….” moments. A father caring about his child deeply can have this effect on me, even if the person is only an actor in a movie. If you’re wondering, I’m thinking about the movie I Am Sam. There were certain times in that movie where I wanted to cry, but I tried as hard as I could to hold the tears in because I watched it with my then Parenting class.
In A Game of Thrones, there were scenes that made me tear up—the way one of Ned Stark’s sons was treated made me so sad. The feelings he felt made me feel for him deeply. I still do. I wish I could give him a hug, even though he is a fictional character. It’s so unfair that he was treated that way.
What can you get from this?
Pain that touches me can cause me to cry…. and joy that feels overwhelming can cause me cry as well.
I could use thicker skin, but I never want to be a person who doesn’t care about other people, their opinions, and their feelings. It’s just not who I am. If I found out my actions hurt someone, that can make me cry, too. If there’s anything I don’t want to do… it’s to cause someone else hurt (especially immense hurt) of any kind, no matter how much that person might have hurt me. There is nothing so horrifying to me when it comes to what I am capable of as knowing I have been the cause of or part of the reason for somebody else’s suffering.