Damn you, Parenthood

[erniebufflo]

This show always makes me cry, every stinking week. And playing that Iron and Wine "Naked as We Came?" song? Sobfest. I am eventually gonna have to get some therapy, because lines about dying in your loved one's arms and having him spread your ashes are major triggers for me lately. I guess that's my Thursday confession: almost dying has really fucked me up emotionally and spiritually. It's probably verging on depression to think about death as much as I do.

[mscatra]

I'm thinking it's good I don't watch this then! I can't watch The Notebook because them dying together made me sobbing angry the one and only time I watched it. Sometimes stuff just hits too close to home.

Hugs to you. I really enjoy your posts and am glad you're still with us!!

Re-reading, that sounds awkward, but I'm leaving it. I don't "do" emotions well, lol.

[erniebufflo]

Sept 20, 2012 9:38:30 GMT -5 mscatra said:

I'm thinking it's good I don't watch this then! I can't watch The Notebook because them dying together made me sobbing angry the one and only time I watched it. Sometimes stuff just hits too close to home.

Hugs to you. I really enjoy your posts and am glad you're still with us!!

Re-reading, that sounds awkward, but I'm leaving it. I don't "do" emotions well, lol.

FTR no one died in the show. Just in the song. Which is actually really beautiful, though morbid. Kind of like some of my other faves, Sufjan Stevens' "Casimir Pulaski Day" and Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." I could make a whole mix tape of pretty songs about dying!

And thanks.

[mscatra]

Sept 20, 2012 9:43:38 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

Sept 20, 2012 9:38:30 GMT -5 mscatra said:

I'm thinking it's good I don't watch this then! I can't watch The Notebook because them dying together made me sobbing angry the one and only time I watched it. Sometimes stuff just hits too close to home.

Hugs to you. I really enjoy your posts and am glad you're still with us!!

Re-reading, that sounds awkward, but I'm leaving it. I don't "do" emotions well, lol.

FTR no one died in the show. Just in the song. Which is actually really beautiful, though morbid. Kind of like some of my other faves, Sufjan Stevens' "Casimir Pulaski Day" and Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." I could make a whole mix tape of pretty songs about dying!

And thanks.

Yeah, I used to have a Rhapsody playlist of that type of song. Also, I Will Follow You was a maaaajor fave of mine in a morbid "I'm going to listen to this 10 times in a row and sob my heart out" way for a while. Yellowcard's "View From Heaven" and Offspring's "Gone Away" have love-cry effect for me, too. I saw Offspring do a stripped down pretty version with just Dexter and a piano in concert. Tears. Lots of tears, right in the middle of a punk crowd.

[carawestt]

I was balling like a baby during the last episode and them having that song didn't help either! My husband went to the bathroom and came back out to me crying. He was like "I was gone 1 minute, what did I miss?!"

[erniebufflo]

Sept 20, 2012 13:03:45 GMT -5 @therealmc said:

Ernie - ever since I went through cancer, I am the same way. Any kind of death or someone close to death makes me cry. Nothing else affects me this way. Sometimes I think it is borderline depression, other times I just don't really ponder what it is. Maybe I should one day.

PS...I just watched the episode and it made me cry.

I totally get what you mean on not pondering it. A lot of the time, I can just sort of push it away and shrug it off, like, well, of course such a profound brush with mortality shook me up a little. But then other times, I almost feel panicked about dying and being separated from my family. It's like I feel a coldness around my heart and this terrible feeling of dread. I feel like emotionally healthy people probably aren't thinking multiple times per day about the fact that they will one day die. which I do.

[TrudyCampbell]

I love that song!