[tracilicious]

Is it wrong of me to laugh at your pain? If it is, you shouldn't write it in such a funny way. You hear me? It is your fault I am laughing at you!!!! Are you crying yet? Did I make you cry?

Easy cryers (criers?) can annoy me. Last month my sister was talking to me about postponing the baby shower she had been planning (a week before it was scheduled to happen) because they hadn't sent out invitations. I calmly and fairly politely explained that my feelings were hurt because they had neglected such an essential task when I had made them the invitation list they had requested on time and that it felt like they didn't care about the shower. Then my other sister gets on the phone and starts yelling at me for being mean because my first sister was crying. I wasn't mean. She just cries easily. So then I start crying (I was ten months pregnant and under extreme stress, I think it was justified) then she feels bad and has to call ten times to apologize.

Wouldn't life without tear ducts be a lot better? We could all hold rational arguments without crumbling into tears? I'm fairly certain that there is an operation for just that sort of thing.

I'm an easy cryer when it comes to my mom and my sisters. I don't know why. I'm pretty much a stone cold stoic with other people. It's as if a lifetime of them knowing exactly which sore spots to push hasn't hardened me at all. Pity. I'd like to be stoic towards them most of all. It's always the people that you don't want to let know that they've gotten to you that break you down in the end, it seems.