The Perfect Storm of Emotions

There is something so beautiful about a movie that touches you on an emotional level.  It slides past the surface of entertainment to move something in your heart…in your soul.  You may not even be aware of why or how you connect with it, just that you do.  You are a part of it.  You are in it.  You cry.  They might be tears of sadness.  They might be tears of laughter and joy.  But you cry.  You can’t help it, and you can’t stop it.  It is so deep, so touching…so you cry.  And when this happens, you just let the tears come.  You don’t try to stop them.  You don’t wipe them away.  You just let them snake down your cheeks and soak into your shirt.  Because it’s real.  Emotions that you have been holding back, bottling up for weeks, months, or even years, suddenly come rushing out in a torrent.  Everything you have, everything you feel is in those tears.  It’s cleansing and cathartic. 

And it was a movie that brought it out of you.  Someone wrote that script, someone acted it out, and someone directed and produced it.  Without ever knowing you or how it would affect you, they put that project together.  And with that work, they managed to evoke something deep inside you.  Chances are that if you were to have seen that exact same movie at a different time, it would not have had that effect on you.  It was a perfect storm of emotions.

And other people can’t understand it.  They walk in, and they see you crying at a movie, and they don’t get it.  And that makes it all the more beautiful, because it’s rare and special.  You are connected like nobody else.  Nobody feels like you do.  Those are your emotions.  Those are your tears.