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Heart of a Marshmallow
Have I complained here about how soggy my previously flinty little heart has become? I know it is the inevitable muckyness of having had children relatively recently.
Where previously I couldn't watch any movie involving animal threat or death (and even in fourth grade I had to leave my classroom, weeping weeping weeping when the class story hour got to the end of Where the Red Fern Grows-- someone else is going to have to read that one to the children; I'll call dibs on Treasure Island). And now I'm having trouble hearing the standard Local News Horror stories about abandoned children and other awful things that just make me start to sweat suddenly. This was never a stumbling block for me before and I'm sure I'll harden up again at some point, but it is almost embarrassing. I get irritated and uncomfortable with books that throw in kid/dog/other animal death as little non-essential throwaway plot points, and want to put them aside.
It all makes me restless and annoyed, as if I'm welded into an outfit that doesn't fit. (Although having said that, nothing does fit right now so maybe I'm actually projecting my sartorial issues onto other aspects of life.)
Does this squish go away? Does it set in for everyone? I want my taste back. It's no good being a spineless sourpuss.
posted by Elise at 12:02 PM
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gef said...
I hear you. The thought of that Lovely Bones book makes me want to faint.
3/07/2008 6:28 PM
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OMG - 'Where The Red Fern Grows' is a film I remember from my childhood! It's the first time I've heard it mentioned in *cough* several years!
I remember it bcz it made me cry! I think I was crying too hard to understand the ending by that point too! As a child we also used to listen to 'story time' about Gobbelino the witches cat, and he was forever looking for a home but after the first few stories it dawned on me that he was always going to be 'thwarted' at the end of the story and, knowing that there would never be a happy ending I used to stick my fingers in my ears and hum throughout the story after that - I was a popular kid...
Wow! What a blast from the past! I've just had my first baby and I don't think the 'soppiness' goes away tbh! I mentioned on the phone to my mum the other day that a missing child (for 24 days) had been found alive, and I started blubbing on the phone... what a wuss! lol
Susie :)
3/17/2008 7:44 PM
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