I’ve been watching Criminal Minds and today I got to an episode that was particularly heart-wrenching.  I found myself bawling my eyes out and surprisingly, it actually felt kind of good.  I guess every now and then it’s nice to have a release like that.  I actually found myself crying harder than you might expect for the level of sadness in the show, but I suppose it was just because the floodgates were finally opened.  I can’t remember the last time I cried, so I wonder if I’ve built up a lot of emotion to release or if it was just because I thought of how terrible it would be if I had to endure such a hardship.

My eyes are overworked from that and I’m pretty tired.  Crying is hard work!  There was a lot of tear-wiping, sniffling, and nose-blowing for about 5 minutes.  It feels like I did some vigorous activity – suddenly I’m hungry, thirsty, and drained.  Thank goodness I have no plans this upcoming Saturday, so I can finally sleep in way later than I should and recover from a lack of restfulness this week.  I’m glad that the show was able to bring out some of the stronger emotions in me, since I haven’t had much need for intense joy or sadness the past couple of months.  There have definitely been ups and downs, and this allowed me to cry out some of the downs.  Funny how the human body and psyche work.