Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

saintmdterps said

So do you let those around you see your emotions if, for example, Mother came on? I do, and I'll explain to them why certain memories can move me to tears or laughter. Mike & the Mechanics' In the Living Years will have me bawling like a baby reminding me very pointedly of my father's death in 1984. If that show of emotion bothered a woman I was dating then we would no longer be dating.

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Bro, I got a little weepy when Tom Hanks lost “Wilson” in Castaway and my wife teases me about it to this day, but not in a mean way. I never know when something is going to get to me but when it does, it just does and so what. We’re too hard on each other in society from so many different angles. We place unrealistic expectations on each other that we can’t achieve ourselves; yet, we expect other people to. We all have our biases and selfish desires, and we have to be intentional about accepting each other on a daily basis.

Many of us are fortunate to have enough emotional intelligence and self control to never do anything like this; but there are also many of us who lack those qualities and this tragedy is yet another horrific example of the results.