There’s a celebrity/tv and movie/pop culture message board I’m a member of and tonight I was on the TV forum. There’s a thread called Saddest TV Moments. It’s one that has been going on for years, no one has posted in a while. Just noticed someone recently posted so I went into it, then started scrolling through the pages. I found a post I wrote about a scene in the soap opera Guiding Light that made me cry with joy, not because of sadness. One of the characters was deaf and her character got a cochlear implant and the scene was about when they turned it on and she heard tissues coming out of a box and the expression of amazement was so awesome because you knew that’s how it was for her in real life. I posted how Greyeagle posted here about when his daughter got hers and she heard rain falling on the roof for the first time, how awesome it was to read that.
Anyway, someone responded and also mentioned an episode of Friday Night Lights. I responded how that episode gutted me. And that my dad saw the episode and called me to talk about it. He never had any reaction to tv shows so it says something how powerful that episode was. Reading that made me weepy. I had forgotten all about it. And then I happened to notice the date I posted that. And it was April 1, which is the date he died. Which made me weepy all over again. But really, that’s kinda weird, isn’t it?
Swansong, been thinking of you and hope you’re staying strong.
