About being fragile

There is an animated video on Facebook of a couple that grow old together. Their life is full of hardships yet they maintain their love and find happiness in little things. At least that's what I think the video is trying to communicate. Lots of people have liked it and I can understand how people can see beauty in it.
I really struggled to watch it to the end. I feel like seeing something so sad  - to someone else it might just seem melancholic or even romantic! - could make me fall apart in an instant because I feel that pain. My heart literally aches for cartoon characters! Go figure..

It's easier not to go touching a scar that still hurts. It doesn't even have to be exactly the same feeling or experience that I've had. It's like as if I have in a way become super sensitive to all sorts of sadness and pain that I see. Call me a fool, but I prefer watching silly happy things with happy endings that lift me up or at least lull me into a soft fluffy happy feeling, cos the other kind of feelings are too hard and they scare me. A little "ping" of a spoon at the edge of a fine crystal glass and it might well shatter.

Better not go reading the news in these days.. that will just bring me down.