Now, by the title, you are probably very concerned as to if I did something bad to a guy like punched them or insulted them... becausethats what my closest friends thought... but, no, they were happy tears..? I assume... They weren't scared tears or anything... Let me explain myself.
As some of you may know, I am in my final year of school and I am currently doing the visual arts course where I have to make an artwork to hand in at the end of August. I had recently just finished my work, which is a picture book as a way to come out to my family as transgender, and it was ready for printing.
Before I was going to send it off, my teacher wanted to check for spelling errors (which there was a lot of because I is bad speller) so she was quickly looking through it. She's watched me all the way through my work so she's pretty immune to 'the feels'... plus shes been an art teacher for many, many years and 'does not feel emotions' as she told me today... So, when another one of the art teachers walked in, a very kind hearted 67 year old man who is incredibly sweet, she made him look at my work as a 'new set of eyes'.
As I said, Ms is totally immune to feels and I was sick of looking at my own work at this point so I really couldn't tell what kind of reaction my work would get. Plus, I've been Trans my whole life, so what the book talks about is nothing new to me.
So he wandered over happily and began to look through my book. He read through it carefully and took in all my drawings. I quickly fumbled with my words saying, 'Yea, you know... there may be more spelling mistakes... but I'll fix them... heh..."
But he became very quiet. And by the last page, he stood back and looked at me. He commended me on how good the drawings were (since they were graphic design works and not many people within my school have done them) then quickly apologized that he had to go.
Before he left, he thanked me... I didn't really look at him when he did because I was editing a few things but I said kindly 'no problem' as if he just borrowed my pen or something.
Then he left after farewelling my teacher.
Thats when my teacher walked over to me and said "In case you didn't notice, he was crying."
And I just kinda stopped what I was doing and sat there...
I didn't mean it... He's one of those people you never want to see cry so I felt really bad.
And Ms said "He was pretty emotional. Don't worry though, He's just a big softy. But thats good! That's the kind of response you want."
And I was thinking "what? making grown men cry...?"
Now, because I was in the classroom during my exam period, there was no one in there except for one other student who was in my class, trying to wrap her photography stuff up to get printed, and she said "I want to see it..."
Ms laughed and the student continued "Everyone getting emotional over your work and everyones been talking about it... I feel like a puppy who is staring at some food that everyone else is eating but I can't eat it"
I honestly thought my work really wasnt that great.... soits a surprise that people have been talking about it and crying over it...
Anyway, Have a good day everyone ^_^
~BashTheManDestroyer
