an observation on what makes me cry:

• My little sister’s tears
• Academy Award Show acceptance speeches
• essential oils when they get in my eyes
• As by Stevie Wonder because it reminds me of what could have been.
• Thinking about my aunt, my grandmothers, my grandfather, my idol…
• animals with huge eyes
• Seeing my brother cry
• second-hand embarrassment
• Helpless people that deserve better 
• Doing something I really dont want to do 
• My allergies 

• Movies and TV Shows with happy endings 
• Movies and TV Shows with tragic endings
• Seeing my parents cry 
• Death and birth
• when people are awarded things that they deserve
• spicy foods
• when I stare into the sun during sunset and the wind blows in my face.

– from the perspective of a seventeen year old girl