Sunday, June 13, 2010

It's a fine line between sentimentalism

and legitimately saddening material. You could be a widower, watching old 8mms of a trip you had with your wife just after you kids were born, watching it on the garage door, drunk, and in the late night, not caring whether the neighbors are watching. They know your story, and they know you try your damn hardest to raise two kids.

you know, that kind of stuff can just be fabricated...

what's something sadder than that? A kid who's father died in a car wreck and he brings in an unfinished model airplane that they had both been working on. He presents during show and tell with pride, only slightly hinting at mourning, since he has not yet absorbed the impact of his father's death until he is in front of the class and realizes that he will have to complete the airplane by himself.

Or maybe a wife is rushing to the hospital because her husband has suffered a trauma to the head. It's a hereditary deterioration of the blood vessels in the brain. Freak accident. And she sold her hair so that she could buy him a case for his watch. FUCKING DEPRESSING.

i'm out, peace.

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