Yale Theatrical Society

After getting your braces tightened you must not consume:
a) Chewy, sticky foods
b) Hard foods that can sever brackets
c) Crunchy things that get stuck in between wires
or
d) All of the above

So a few days ago my braces were tightened, making it impossible to eat anything and everything that I usually snack on each day. Eventually I figured out that you can still eat all of the forbidden foods, it just hurts a lot. Despite the hurt, I'd munch through the pain, conquering what dear Dr. Richard's had stated as impossible. This kind of pain was physically. As in-
Pain, noun.
1) Physical discomfort caused by illness or injury. 2) A feeling of marked discomfort.

After a while, I have become a master at fighting through the pain to eat the food I want.

However, today I felt a different kind of pain. That is, pain in the heart. But I wasn't crying for me, I was crying for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Or, Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton. As I sat in the basement all alone, I watched the story of a boy and a girl who fall in love one summer, and then fall in love all over again. The Notebook had me crying so hard that after a while I was numb to the fountain of water that was flowing down my face. The story isn't sad, it's actually quite happy. But for some reason, I only felt sadness. And I am wondering how it is that we can feel for people that we haven't even met. That we can feel for a story that isn't even real. That we can feel the pain, joy or happiness that we ourselves aren't even experiencing.



(The answer is D)