Sunday, August 30, 2015

#242

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Students cry. Sometimes there’s no particular reason to cry. You just do it, because the sadness of human existence suggests this might be best. I didn’t cry for about four or five years of my life, when I was a teenager. When it finally broke through, it was excruciating, terrible, literally painful. I thought it was some kind of transcendent transforming moment. Bullshit. I hated it. I really hated it. Now, it’s much easier because I’m done with the strictures that say men don’t cry. It triggers from small, trivial things. Almost exclusively when I’m alone. (I don’t admit this publicly. Come to think of it, I’m not admitting it now.)

1 comment:

  1. "But this lady looked beyond frown." Another winner.

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