toldorknown:

I’ve been saying for years that I never cry during sad moments in the movies, only during moments about goodness. At the end of “Terms of Endearment,” I didn’t cry because of Debra Winger’s death, but because of how she said goodbye to her sons. Now I’ve discovered a scientific explanation for why I feel the way that I do, and there is even a name for my specific emotion.

Just three days after I listed this very feeling as one of my 7 Things, Roger Ebert lets me know that I’m not alone, and that it’s called Elevation.

Update: Be sure to check out the comments. Incredibly high signal to noise ratio. He moderates, of course, but still.

This is incredible. Apparently I’m a huge Elevationist. It’s my drug to be in a theater experiencing it just as it is to be at a stadium when it happens or in the street where the people are. It’s why I’m in New York and why I love the high a good book, movie, or public event can give me, and why I need to share it with others.

I wrote about this before I knew what Elevation was; I called it Sensationalism.