When did I get so emotional?

Aisling said:

Welcome to the land of the people who feel too much at idiotic times. I’m going to have to go with my mom’s theory of why I am this way: I am hormonal and overly-dramatic. Maybe you are too? I think being overly-dramatic may result from the fact that my life is so insanely boring! When my life is interesting, I am only somewhat-dramatic. In any case, it causes me to cry at almost every movie I watch, and makes me want to cuddle for 24 hours a day. Which would be nice, if I had a cuddle buddy, but instead makes me emotional because I do not.

Peter Green said:

It could be just that as you get older you see things differently, you become more compassionate, more involved, things mean more to you?
It could also be hormones or a bit of both!
To ‘feel’ and have emotions, can’t be all that bad can it?

Lene said:

I guess that just happens to people. At least, that you describe happened to me too. A little sooner though. I was the one who couldn’t care less for anything or anyone… now I cry at practically every cute commercial on TV

Anna said:

Hi Rachael!

I cry at movies all the time, haha.

And I would definetly have almost, if not actually, cried while singing The Black Parade with seventeen thousand people and Gerard Way.

Clem said:

I can totally relate to this. I react to everything by crying. When someone says something that makes me mad, I start to cry, so they feel bad and I feel stupid. But it’s not that I’m so lame that I cry when someone insults me. I just get mad and the tears come, as much as I want to stop them.
The thing is, I don’t cry at books or movies or songs, which I used to. Now it’s just a reaction to everything else.

Tracy said:

You can be lucky it’s only a phase (perhaps?). I’m so sentimental - it’s UGH! I cry watching Bambi, I get tears in my eyes when people talk about death… I cry at all kind of movies. And thinking about death.

Julie said:

It’s because you listen to too much emo music.

Rachael said:

Julie, I’d hardly call Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and Cute is what we aim for “emo”.

Mari said:

I recently bawled like a baby at “The Notebook”. And I too didn’t used to be this way. Maybe it’s part of getting older? Only, you’d think it would be the other way around - getting less sentimental as you get older…

I too would cry at ten thousand people singing “Unfaithful”… That song is agony-inducing.

Genesis said:

I cry at anything that is even a little bit sad or overjoying. If I see someone cry from sadness or happiness, I tear up too. It’s awful. I’m too emotional! But that’s nothing new for me. Maybe you just need to let it all out and have a really big cry.

Julie said:

@Rachael: I’d hardly be able to not call My Chemical Romance emo if I were getting paid to say they were not.

Okay 1) that sentence was confusing and 2) if I were getting paid a lot of money to say it, I guess I’d even say they sing opera.

Rachael said:

Julie, give me evidence that they’re emo please?

Lil said:

Rachael, obviously all people who listen to emo music are sad, in the same way that all people who listen to metal are violent, people who listen to pop are dimwitted and people who listen to prog rock are stuck up their own arse

Having emotions makes us human, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Being a woman just magnifies those niggly little feelings tenfold. I can honestly say that sometimes I get the same way with the most random of things.

And you got teary at the Rihanna show?! I never noticed

Rachael said:

I still don’t see how MCR are emo. *shrug* Morbid, dark, yes, but not emo. If you want emo, just look at Fall Out Boy, with lyrics like “I’m a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart.” That’s emo.

Yes I got teary at the Rihanna show. I got a lump in the back of my throat. I didn’t expect you to notice it, though, and to be honest I didn’t want you to notice. Because then you would have asked me if I was okay and I would have just broken down in tears and it would have been awkward for both of us!

Amanda said:

I have been dealing with the same problem. I experienced allot of death at a young age and instead of dealing with it, I cried a little then forced myself to move on. My therapist said that if I didn’t deal with it then it will creep up on me later in life. I can’t help but think that this has something to do with that. I cry over anything that gives me the slightest bit of emotion and I hate it. I’m not one much for drama, especially crying over over silly things like my sons cartoons. Frustrating, sometimes I chew gum so people don’t see me crying during in appropriate times during movies and even commercials.