You are writing a paper and are stuck without a single clue as to what to write. It is due at midnight. It's 10:00 pm. You're stressed. You panic. "What do I do? What if I don't finish it? The teacher doesn't accept late work!" You let out a little scream inside. You begin to sniffle. Soon one big fat tear rolls off your cheek. Then another one. And another one. Pretty soon your face is streaked with tears. But you're in a public place, you tell yourself. I can't cry here. Oh dear, the waterworks have began. But never fear, I have compiled a short list of 5 ways to cover up the fact you are crying in public without giving it away. Take a look:
1. Go to a museum and find the simplest painting and sit in front of it and just let it all out
You've had a bad day. You're stressed and want to blow off some steam but you are among people and crying in public just isn't allowed. Well, thanks to the idea given by comedian Lisa Schaeffer (who came to Willamette awhile back), your woes can be resolved. According to her, you should go to the nearest art museum and find the simplest painting there. Then you sit in front of it and just slowly let it all out. People would think you're very sophisticated and that you see something that they don't. That blue dot there? It must represent her family. Classy.
2. Watch a sad movie
What better time to let out all the waterworks than a sad movie? All those feels about your favorite character's dilemma in a film you've watched too many times to count and know the ending of but it still gets you every time. Who can judge that? It's called empathy and that's what makes us human.
3. Read a sappy romance novel
Really any Nicholas Sparks romance novel you have ever read. You must have bawled your eyes out. Someone always dies and the main characters always fall in love with each against all odds and ride off in the sunset, right? Why can't real life be that easy?
4. Take a nap
This one is a no-brainer. Fall asleep with your head in your arms on the table and no questions asked. You're sleeping so no one in the right frame of mind would ask you why you're crying. Sounds good to me!
5. Cover your face with a big newspaper
The best disguise in the whole wide world when you're feeling blue. Just put that big newspaper in front of you and pretend to read it as you let go of all your sorrows.
