let the record show that it is 3:21 am, and i am in my bed SOBBING my eyeballs out. totalfilm.com came out with an ‘ultimate tearjerker’ list which lead me to watching the saddest parts in all my favorite movies:

beaches

homeward bound

stand by me (growing sadder, but still no crying. “we’re never going to get out of this town” and “cya”"not if i see you first” usually force me to succumb to my overwhelming emotions but not this time)

the wrestler

it’s a wonderful life

schindler’s list

fox and the hound

dumbo

the lion king (and this is where i start tearing up)

bambi (obviously by this point i am deeevastated but there are still no tears running down my cheeks believe it or not). however, a looooooong time ago, at least 12 years ago, i must have been 5 at the most. i watched bambi with my mother and wept on her lap. i remember it so vividly. i think everyone has a story similar to this…

but i watch this video and that’s when i am seriously DESTROYED. think of the scene in the shining where all the blood comes gushing down the hall way but turn those into tears and this my friends, is what you have. to be specific, i started at the 3:34 mark but if you have any sense at all, watch the entire video in it’s entirety and DEFINITELY stay for the ending

mr. rogers was my first crush and im not even going to front, i miss this guy a ton. the waterworks prove it:

if anybody knows of any more sad movies, let me know because i will record my reaction and post it here. unfortunately youtube doesn’t have the scene in forrest gump (my third favorite movie of all time) where SPOILER ALERT forrest is at jenny’s grave but i bet if i saw that right before the lion king and mr. rogers i would have woken up the whole house with my cries! ahh, such a baby. also, yall should ask my aunt about the time i went to go see my dog skip at the theatre and my parents had to carry me out. i was 8, whatever..please don’t judge. my dog had died earlier that year and it aaaaaallllll came rushing back! rude family, dang, cool empathy skills you jerks. you can pretty much count on any movie where a dog gets hurt or dies for me to bring the tears. and the end of steel magnolias, which i am too weak to look up on youtube.