What melts your heart?

[elfin_odalisque]

Don't remind me of being 'choked up'.

Grabbed Dannielle Steel's 'Johnny Angel' at an airport shop last week. No excuse, never normally read her.

Perfect high school trackstar dies in car crash on prom night. Not allowed into heaven until he's sorted out all the emotional problems of his and his girlfriend's family. Laid on so thick.

It was the 'are you all right Ma'am' of the flight attendant made me realize I was blubbing like a baby.

Health warning: Do not read this book!

 

[Guest]

sometimes, ill remember my mom on her deathbed...when i asked her to tell me her favorite song...she began to sing:
'youll never know just how much ive loved you
youll never know how much ive cared
and if i tried, i still couldnt hide my love for you
you oughta know for havent i told you so
a million or more times
you went away and my heart went with you
i say your name in my every prayer
if there is some little way to prove that i love you
i swear i dont know how
but youll never know if you dont know now.'
she never missed a beat, as weak as she was. she held my hand like she knew before we all knew...even now my eyes are watery, just relaying this.

crying when someone important to me leaves after a visit. you never know...when youll see them again.
crying when my daughter preforms her music is a given.

crying is something i didnt used to do. i think that after the road ive had to travel these last 5 years, its just become something i dont mind doing as much as i used to. i dont see it as being weak...just as a way to express an emotion you cant verbalize.

v~
ps all the above it nonsense, i never cry...NEVER! see? yeah yeah...thats the ticket.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Beautiful, Vella and, no, course I never cry. You better believe me, made my last post up.

Sorrows which find no vent in tears may soon make other organs weep. Sir Henry Maudsley

'When a boy gets hurt by a girl
- His feelings he will hide
- When he acts tough,
- Sure enough,
- Itís a sign he ís soft inside.
Eden Kane: Boys Cry (1964)

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. Albert Richard Smith


Why do only humans cry?

 

[cloudy]

Why do only humans cry?

We're not the only ones that cry...elephants do. In fact, there's a book called something like "When Elephants Cry" that makes a very strong case that animals feel more emotion than we give them credit for.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

We're not the only ones that cry...elephants do. In fact, there's a book called something like "When Elephants Cry" that makes a very strong case that animals feel more emotion than we give them credit for.

Yeah, read it, but as far as I understood it, the bit about elephants crying is not fully proved

 

[dr_mabeuse]

We're not the only ones that cry...elephants do. In fact, there's a book called something like "When Elephants Cry" that makes a very strong case that animals feel more emotion than we give them credit for.

Dogs know when you're crying too. Dogs and elephants are social animals, and so they have to be able to read emotions.

Bach's "Aire on the G-string" almost always makes me cry. It was on at a Border's Books when it suddenly came on the sound system and I had to leave. It starts with a swelling feeling in my chest, like my heart is breaking, and then the tears come.

Crying at movies and stuff is probably normal, but unexpected tears are also a sign of clinical depression. It happens to me when I have an episode. I'll be watching TV or something, and they'll show some kids learning ballet, and I'll just be flooded with tears without rhyme or reason. They stop as quickly as they come, and they're rarely cathartic, at least for me. It's just like an overwhelming wave of sadness.

I really wish they could be cathartic. It must feel really good to be able to purge the emotions from your system and throw them away in a balled-up kleenex, but it rarely works that way for me. In my most recent episode I was in the car when I was just overwhelmed with feelings of sadness and rage, and I just started weeping. I had to pull over on a side street and sit there with my hands on the wheel crying while the dog looked at me and licked my hand. I think I embarrassed him. Then it stopped, and I wiped my eyes and drove home.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Dogs know when you're crying too. Dogs and elephants are social animals, and so they have to be able to read emotions.

My german shepherd is better at responding to emotions than most humans. When I'm upset, he doesn't try to "fix" it, he just sits down and puts his head on my arm; and when I laugh he just jumps on me and licks my face.

There are certain songs that make me cry too. Usually ones that remind me of a specific point in time, or a certain mood; sometimes one will just strike me in a new way.

 

[TheEarl]

Joe - Yup I definitely remember the end of Shawshank redemption having me in tears.

Guys..does it make a difference who your watching a film/programme with as to if you'll let the tears come or not? Will you cry in front of a girlfriend or infront of guy friends or just privately on your own?

Depends on the company. If I was watching something with guy friends then I would deliberately choose to not watch something that I know would definitely set me off. With very close girl friends or with a girlfriend, then I might.

For those of you who say that a particular piece of media made you cry - which bit in particular gets you? Is it the end, a character realising something, a plot twist?

For me, the guaranteed moment is in the middle of The Body, where people are reacting to news of Buffy's mother's death. Anya seems detached and intensely insensitive by asking stupid questions, but it's not until she suddenly breaks in the middle of a sentence that you get that she's scared and confused and frightened beyond belief at her first experience of death.

But I don't understand! I don't get how we can do this, how we can go through this. I mean, I knew her and I liked her and now all there is is a body. And I don't get why she can't just get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid and mortal. And Xander's crying and not talking to me and I was eating pudding this morning and I thought 'Joyce will never have pudding again' or brush her hair, or smile and no-one will explain to me why!

The Earl

 

[TheEarl]

Dogs know when you're crying too. Dogs and elephants are social animals, and so they have to be able to read emotions.

Absolutely right. My Basil didn't really know what to do if I cried near him. He'd usually come up to me and whack my arm with his nose to get me to look up and then bounce about, trying to get me to play with him. I think he always just wanted me to stop being upset.

Thinking of him too much is another thing that brings tears to my eyes.

In extension to my answer to E-L: I don't think I'm much of a social cryer at all actually. I've cried in front of my former Lady and a couple of friends, but only on rare occasions. Usually I prefer to be alone.

The Earl

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Dogs know when you're crying too. Dogs and elephants are social animals, and so they have to be able to read emotions.

Bach's "Aire on the G-string" almost always makes me cry. It was on at a Border's Books when it suddenly came on the sound system and I had to leave. It starts with a swelling feeling in my chest, like my heart is breaking, and then the tears come.

Crying at movies and stuff is probably normal, but unexpected tears are also a sign of clinical depression. It happens to me when I have an episode. I'll be watching TV or something, and they'll show some kids learning ballet, and I'll just be flooded with tears without rhyme or reason. They stop as quickly as they come, and they're rarely cathartic, at least for me. It's just like an overwhelming wave of sadness.

I really wish they could be cathartic. It must feel really good to be able to purge the emotions from your system and throw them away in a balled-up kleenex, but it rarely works that way for me. In my most recent episode I was in the car when I was just overwhelmed with feelings of sadness and rage, and I just started weeping. I had to pull over on a side street and sit there with my hands on the wheel crying while the dog looked at me and licked my hand. I think I embarrassed him. Then it stopped, and I wiped my eyes and drove home.

Cathartic, no, but stress relieving yes. Where did all that 'bottle it up inside' and 'stiff upper lip' stuff come from?

Surely tears are some strange way for the brain to slow down. How else can you explain the tears of joy when a wife gets her husband back from a war?

 

[Guest]

A simple smile from a loved one.






A leery, sexy smile, makes other parts of me wet.

 

[English Lady]

Vella..I knida asked for it starting this thread but your post made me sob...beautiful

Dr M I was once paying for some goods in a local supermarket when "Bright Eyes" (watership down theme) came over the radio. The girl gave me a strange look as I passed over my money then wiped my eyes*L* I had to bite my lip and rush out of there before i really set off.


Carson...I remember that when I was about 7 I was fed up. I went out into the back garden and sat on the grass, staring off into space. Dad had let the greyhound out (we kenneled racing greyhounds for years before we needed the garage for a car*L*) he was called Hunter and he headed straight for me. He plonked himself down next to me and placed his head in my lap. I don't know how to explain it but he knew I was sad and needed some attention. I gelt so much better for having him there with me. (tearing up as i type that*L*)

Earl...that bit gets to me too...*nods* For me something makes me cry when great intense emotions are shown. Actually sountrack plays a big part too...I respond to lyrics especially when coupled with great emotional scenes. Also any form of expression of love will hhave me in tears. Even someone proposing on a chatshow or something. Yup total sap here *L* (the split up between Rachel and Ross on Friends has me sobbing whenever i see it)

I will always try to hold in tears if I'm watching something with my Sister and/or Nanna...they're both hard hearted and make fun of my tears. I have never seen my sister cry at a film or tv programme.

I cry openly around hubby...He'll probably be crying too *L* I was known for my crying on one retreat I went on. I was in tears over so many emotions over the 4 days following the Easter Story. So I guess I'm not too fussy who I cry infront off *L*
Lou...you're just such a tart

 

[Huckleman2000]

Crying at movies and stuff is probably normal, but unexpected tears are also a sign of clinical depression. It happens to me when I have an episode. I'll be watching TV or something, and they'll show some kids learning ballet, and I'll just be flooded with tears without rhyme or reason. They stop as quickly as they come, and they're rarely cathartic, at least for me. It's just like an overwhelming wave of sadness.

I really wish they could be cathartic. It must feel really good to be able to purge the emotions from your system and throw them away in a balled-up kleenex, but it rarely works that way for me. In my most recent episode I was in the car when I was just overwhelmed with feelings of sadness and rage, and I just started weeping. I had to pull over on a side street and sit there with my hands on the wheel crying while the dog looked at me and licked my hand. I think I embarrassed him. Then it stopped, and I wiped my eyes and drove home.

Too true, Dr. M. That is the worst of it, that you don't get that purging effect of "a good cry." In fact, when I was on Prozac, I hardly ever cried. Or laughed. I was an emotional flatliner. Plus it took for-fucking-ever to come.

I've been on Effexor now for a few years, with mixed results. It's been a pretty shitty few years, too, by any standard. At least I don't cry when the long distance commercials come on though!

 

[maggot420]

I'm as soft as soft can be. I start this thread now as I just sobbed my heart out over an episode of ER. Simply a few lines of "bright eyes" sung or said will make me well up, most Disney films will have me in tears at one point or another and anything vaguely romantic has the same effect.


How soft are you? what makes your heart melt and your teardrops fall? Also do you think this comes across in what you write? Have you ever written anything that's brought you to tears every time you've read it?

I have one story that gets me like that. "A fruitful Life." has a twist to it that I didn't envisage until it wrote itself and it made me cry writing it and makes me cry reading it.

Do you think this kind of heart melting soppiness is appreiciated here at literotica or is it all about getting off?

Any and all thoughts appreiciated

I was on a train pulling onto Toronto on a very gray, cold, and misty day. The train slowed to a crawl and everyone got up and stood in the aisle ready to disembark when we got into the station. I looked down the length of the car and noticed that everyone was staring out the window towards the gray Lake Ontario. I turned to see what everyone was staring at and all I saw was gray. They were about to start contstruction on the Skydome and the entire shoreline was broken gray concrete wreckage and destruction. The lake water was a cold gray and so was the sky. There was no sign of life at all, heading into a city of millions. If I hadn't been so suddenly depressed I would have almost been amused by that fact that everyone on the train was completely captivated by such a dreary and bleak spectacle. It was at that moment, still unable to look away from the window that I heard the voice of an elderly woman somewhere behind me. 'Cry my beloved country' she said quietly with an english accent. It sort of struck me right there. For some reason I actually felt like crying. But what really disturbed me was that I felt so dry deep in my heart that no tears would fall. For the first time in my life I actually wanted to cry but no tears would come.

And then everything returned to a bustling normalcy. Like it never happened.

 

[yui]

I was on a train pulling onto Toronto on a very gray, cold, and misty day. The train slowed to a crawl and everyone got up and stood in the aisle ready to disembark when we got into the station. I looked down the length of the car and noticed that everyone was staring out the window towards the gray Lake Ontario. I turned to see what everyone was staring at and all I saw was gray. They were about to start contstruction on the Skydome and the entire shoreline was broken gray concrete wreckage and destruction. The lake water was a cold gray and so was the sky. There was no sign of life at all, heading into a city of millions. If I hadn't been so suddenly depressed I would have almost been amused by that fact that everyone on the train was completely captivated by such a dreary and bleak spectacle. It was at that moment, still unable to look away from the window that I heard the voice of an elderly woman somewhere behind me. 'Cry my beloved country' she said quietly with an english accent. It sort of struck me right there. For some reason I actually felt like crying. But what really disturbed me was that I felt so dry deep in my heart that no tears would fall. For the first time in my life I actually wanted to cry but no tears would come.

And then everything returned to a bustling normalcy. Like it never happened.

Your words were beautifully evocative, M. So sad.


What melts my heart? Human tragedy – the footage of the school in Beslan, the genocide in Rwanda, the tsunami victims, the famine victims in Sudan, and on and on… "Amazing Grace" sung without accompaniment. Human kindness. Real life rescue footage. Babies. Free Willy. And to reiterate what's already been said, the "I Will Remember You" episode of Angel was one of the saddest things I have ever seen.

 

[Dar~]

I cried at the end of the yearling (novel) when he had to shoot the deer. *sniff*

Pregnancy make me cry too.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My heart is a lump of coal.........so I'm good.

 

[English Lady]

Hucleman...glad to hear you're doing better -my hubby was on prozac a while vefore i met him and he told me he was a total zombie

Maggot...wow thats sad. Yeah I've felt that deep sadness where you just can't cry. It links in with my reply to Yui....

because it tends to happen when viewing diasater victims..I feel so sad but I can't cry...it's deeper than that.

"I will remember you" yup that one made me cry, I was discussing it with someone last night....


Dar..yeah pregnancy made me even more weepier than normal*L* eek!


*throws Abs on the fire*

 

[matriarch]

My heart is a lump of coal.........so I'm good.

You're a lying biatch !!!!

 

[English Lady]

You're a lying biatch !!!!

I noticed that...shes not burning very well on the fire.....

 

[Dar~]

well, it will be a diamond someday, just like the Gem you are to us. ;p

 

[matriarch]

Your words were beautifully evocative, M. So sad.


What melts my heart? Human tragedy – the footage of the school in Beslan, the genocide in Rwanda, the tsunami victims, the famine victims in Sudan, and on and on…

These don't melt my heart, or even make me cry....they simply shred me until I am numb with it all.

"Amazing Grace" sung without accompaniment.

Sitting in the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, in Caeserea, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, listening to a member of my party standing on the floor of the arena, singing this, unaccompanied.......at one level being aware that hundreds of other people from other parties were stopping in their tracks to listen to the pure sound of her voice, and at another, not aware.....only of the incredible beauty in my ear, the sun on my head and the tears trickling down my face.

 

[Dar~]

just a test

http://reluctant-messenger.com/images/diamond.gif

 

[Dar~]

this is a tear jerking face . . . *sniff*

http://www.shooterdog.com/puppy.jpg

 

[ishtat]

I never cry - but.

20 years ago when we came to Australia we, or rather our small kids were befriended by an elderly Italian couple who lived next door.They were lovely. About 5 years later we had moved but were invited to the Italian couples Golden Wedding (which was also the old mans birthday). Typical huge Italian family affair, almost 300 people there.

It was only marred by one thing. The elderly couples younger daughter had died 12 months before, from breast cancer and she was obviously missed .She had been quite well known as an opera singer, successful locally in a number of small to middling roles.

At the end of the evening the couple's granddaughter stood up made a very short speech saying her mum would have loved to be there but it wasn't to be. However she had sent a message. It was in a short film recorded a month or two before the daughter had died.

Their late daughter apologised for not making it, said some loving things about her Mum & Dad and then said she'd like to sing a song for her dads birthday.

She did . The voice of their dead daughter rang out, she filled the hearts and soul of everyone there .The song - "O my Beloved Father"

I didn't cry, - I bawled - and so did everyone else.