"I'm So Happy--Feeling Snappy"

My very last required blog! *Gasp* Where is the good in goodbye? Where is the fair in farewell?I can barely see the screen because of the tears that are streaming down my face. Ack! The violent sobs are causing my hands to tremble so that I can barely type. I must pull myself together…especially since I have news to share with all you weary souls who are losing sleep due to thoughts of the exam (if the ten page paper is not all consuming). Alicia of the nine o’clock class informed me of a possible study session on Wednesday (Reading Day), sometime in the afternoon (like two or three). Nothing is concrete though, so if I find out more, I’ll post. The more the merrier! (Ha…so cliché).
Maybe I am so emotional from all those melodramas. Teehee. I was a little disappointed we kind of glossed over the subject of chapter eight—the Christian perspective versus the classic Hollywood film, the melodrama. I thought some interesting points were made in that chapter. One being the thought of this inherent goodness of man portrayed in them; that we can resolve everything on our own. As we sit in our pajamas on the couch with our tear-wet popcorn, we watch the family reunite after their struggles and attribute it to their own inner pulls of virtue (nothing to external forces). I also had never really thought about why a melodrama giving an “exaggerated place to emotions” can lead to making them “the universal and ultimate judge of any situation” and how “sentimentality manipulating your emotions by telling you how you should feel.” Feelings can be so swift in flight (apparently females struggle with this more :) ) and can be deceiving. I once heard it said that if you base your Christianity by “a feeling,” you wouldn’t be a Christian half the time. If we repeatedly watch media like this…soon we’ll all be a bunch of basket cases…like I am now. *sniff*