Taking Things Personally

I've been watching a lot of movies lately, and I realize that I take a lot of movies personally.

What I mean is that sometimes I get so involved with the characters that I take it to the heart. I get upset for days when something doesn't end well. If something ends really well, I will sigh over it for days. 

Warning there are spoilers in the next few paragraphs:

I really liked Up in the Air, but the ending left me upset for days. Yes, the George Clooney's character did grow as a person, but it didn't necessarily mean it that his life would end up peachy. I appreciate the realistic ending, but it left me a bit sad. I cried gallons when they were firing people. I am such a sucker for a sob story, and it left me a little bit heart broken.

I don't know how I feel about Avatar. The story really isn't all that original, and some of the things that happened were so hard to believe. I spent half of the time covering my eye because I couldn't take the suspense. Were the Na'vi people doomed? Why is the world so cruel? I wondered about these things for days. 

Then there are movies like The Blind Side that leave me feeling warm hearted and happy. My heart always skips a beat whenever a movie ends well. I love that even though life was hard, there is still hope. I become satisfied and content with life whenever I watch these kind of movies.

Or movies like Pride and Prejudice, that leaves me mooning for Mr Darcy, and it always has a way of cheering me up whenever I lose faith in humanity. Who needs a relationship when I can just live vicariously through Elizabeth Bennet?

I think I have a problem with taking movies too personally. I can't just watch a movie, and not be involved with the characters. I become emotional a lot of times. That's a good reason why I hate scary movies. I become paranoid, and then I become the biggest baby on the planet.

I do that with books too or even when people tell me stories about people they know. I just get so involved that they become people I know and care about (even though I never have met them). 

Wow, I feel like I have more issues then I realized.