Sunday, June 03, 2007

I don't mind crying at stupid movies.

When my friend Aaron died a few months ago I didn't cry much. Ever since then I cry really easily at movies. I think it gets me because I so dont expect it. I almost cried at the preview for The Queen. When I actually went to see it, most of it really didnt get to me. But the scene with the deer. Something about that almost got me. Today I had Hary Potter and the Goblet of Fire on in the background and at the end when Cedric dies I felt my face getting red and a lump in my throat. Last night i shed a few tears when I was watching Click, CLICK!!!! Any moments when Adam Sandler was realizing how important the father son connections are in his life I got a lump in my throat. And at the end when we was yelling out for his son I cried.

The worst though was on my way back from Miami. I went to Miami with some friends of Aaron's. We went just to be together. We didnt really talk about him, and we are friends anyway, but we got together because we love him. He was there in the room the whole time if you know what I mean. On the way back they played "The Bridge to Terabithia." Right in the middle of the movie someone dies unexpectedly. Completely out of nowhere. And it was extra sad because it was someone with a lot of future ahead of them who's time was cut too short.

Well I sat there in seat 24F crying and crying for the last 40 minutes of the movie (ok, I dont actually know if it was 40 minutes but it sure felt like it). I didn't make any noise. I just cried silently and turned my head to look out the window and not watch all the dropped shoulders and frowns.

I'm glad it comes out sometimes. I know it's in there.

Oh yea, and I saw Shrek 3 tonight. Nobody died.

4 comments:

Brian said...

Great post, Z. I've been checking back religiously, waiting for something of substance, and here it is. Click sure got to me, too (twice, actually); I got hit the hardest at the end when Adam Sandler gets home and his kids are still little and they come running to him and he has his whole life with them ahead of him again. That was powerful, and a killer reminder that the most important moments in life are right now.

Zack Sheppard said...

Brian, you are the coolest

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Anonymous said...

Zack, sorry for your loss, and next time you get with your budds you DO need to talk and share the stories of Aaron's Life. He lives on in you and all who knew him.

Judy