An open letter to the internet.
Dear CNN.com and Associated Press,
You are hereby notified by me that it is unacceptable to post a story like THIS on my Google homepage so that it's the first thing I read after I wake up from what would have otherwise been a refreshing forty-five minute nap. I don't know why but during the first fifteen minutes after I wake up I am especially susceptible to being moved to tears by even the most moderately heart wrenching subject matter regardless of the type of medium. Please don't exploit these momentary vulnerabilities anymore, I don't know how much my little heart could take.
I ask that you don't feel singled out by this particular missive as I have sent similar messages to the people responsible for the following:
-The part at the beginning of "City of Angels" when the little girl dies on the operating room table and her spirit looks up at Nicholas Cage's character and referring to her grieving mother says, "She won't understand."
-Seasons 7 and 8 of ER
-Reality shows / news magazine segments about animals saving peoples lives and vice-versa
-The single moment at the end of "Field of Dreams" when little Karin is unconscious from choking on a piece of hot dog and a young Moonlight Graham toes the edge of the field torn between the choice of living the missed opportunity of his childhood fantasy or drawing from his chosen profession of medicine and saving a child's life--and then choosing the child.
-Myself for trying to be amusing and compiling this list of tender moments only to make my own damn self all misty eyed in the process.
Again, while I appreciate the informative storytelling, CNN and everyone noted above; please refrain from displaying it at times when you know goddamn well it's going to cut me deep down inside where I'm soft like a woman.
Sincerely,
TheSteven
You are hereby notified by me that it is unacceptable to post a story like THIS on my Google homepage so that it's the first thing I read after I wake up from what would have otherwise been a refreshing forty-five minute nap. I don't know why but during the first fifteen minutes after I wake up I am especially susceptible to being moved to tears by even the most moderately heart wrenching subject matter regardless of the type of medium. Please don't exploit these momentary vulnerabilities anymore, I don't know how much my little heart could take.
I ask that you don't feel singled out by this particular missive as I have sent similar messages to the people responsible for the following:
-The part at the beginning of "City of Angels" when the little girl dies on the operating room table and her spirit looks up at Nicholas Cage's character and referring to her grieving mother says, "She won't understand."
-Seasons 7 and 8 of ER
-Reality shows / news magazine segments about animals saving peoples lives and vice-versa
-The single moment at the end of "Field of Dreams" when little Karin is unconscious from choking on a piece of hot dog and a young Moonlight Graham toes the edge of the field torn between the choice of living the missed opportunity of his childhood fantasy or drawing from his chosen profession of medicine and saving a child's life--and then choosing the child.
-Myself for trying to be amusing and compiling this list of tender moments only to make my own damn self all misty eyed in the process.
Again, while I appreciate the informative storytelling, CNN and everyone noted above; please refrain from displaying it at times when you know goddamn well it's going to cut me deep down inside where I'm soft like a woman.
Sincerely,
TheSteven