things that bring a tear to the eye

[Mr. FOLLARD]

I watched a bit of Top Hat yesterday - first time - and the scene where F and G are dancing to 'Cheek To Cheek' moved me to tears. I'm not really sure why. Something about the simplicity, the elegance. And it reminded me of my Mam, who loved that sort of thing.

Tears come more easily as you get older, don't you find? And they can take you by surprise.

[loveless]

Occasionally things that call to mind a certain long gone innocence. Either mine or someone else's. Shit- I got choked up at the sound of "Love is All Around" (the original, naturally) a few years back just because some apparent palpable purity just jumped right out of the radio. Loads of things in books and movies that evoke something unexpectedly resonant. I get caught out a fair bit - it's not like you really see it coming.

[tory]

I was shedding tears 2 minutes into the latest Toy Story film.

Fuck Disney - emotionally manipulative twats

[rayge]

Oh, I've always been quick to tears. Apart from real life events, there's loads of moments in movies/TV (anyone else here haunted by the image of the white horse in Franju's Sang des Bêtes?), and a few in books, but the thing that gets me most reliably isn't a fiction at all, although I heartily wish it were: its The Disaster Formerly known as The Great (yeah, really fucking stupendous) War. I can't say exactly why, or when, it started, and I'll spare you the floundering ramble of trying to nail those details, but basically it's something to do with the senseless carnage and sacrifice in the adolescent years of the century after all the wonderful potential and promise of that Edwardian, Art Nouveau childhood. And it being at, or near, the very beginning of Motion pictures

[Cousin Lou]

Nov 30, 2019 13:59:07 GMT Mr. FOLLARD said:

Tears come more easily as you get older, don't you find? And they can take you by surprise.

Yes they do, to the point of flat out embarassing. That said (:-)), i talked about this just a few days ago over dinner with a good friend and he said he’s got it too but isn’t particularly bothered about it.

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I'm glad people are confessing to crying more as they get older because I find that true. I noticed myself crying more after my mom died 20 years ago. I was around 40. I did not cry much at all before that.

[Reactionary Rage]

Oh gawd I’m fucking TERRIBLE

I’m like something from a chick flick starring Meg Ryan

Last Xmas or maybe the one before I was in tears over the Wizard of Oz

Wagner reduces me to a (hawt) wet mess but he does that to everybody I guess

[Reactionary Rage]

Getting older is huge. More perspective, more experience, hopefully more empathy

The spectre of mortality too and “lost” youth/childhood all play their part. I know wonderful people who don’t cry at shit but part of me is always a bit wtf

If I’m drunk and I start talking about my pet cat growing up I’m a mess within seconds. I’ve been in sheds of tears numerous times with mates over the years

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

A fucking teevee commercial can set me off for fuck's sake. What a bunch of wet noodles we are!

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Dec 2, 2019 19:26:15 GMT Reactionary Rage said:

The spectre of mortality too and “lost” youth/childhood all play their part. I know wonderful people who don’t cry at shit but part of me is always a bit wtf

On a road trip a few months ago to see a friend in Sacramento, my good friend who was traveling with me asked if I ever think of mortality. I do, but it was strange to hear it coming from him, because he didn't strike me as someone who did that a lot, especially with a 17 year-old and 14 year-old in the house. When my kids were that age or thereabouts, I rarely had time to reflect much.

I'm getting up to 60 - two more years. This Saturday, I got a hair cut and I noticed that all the hair falling to the floor was gray, not a brown or blonde hair among them. A couple weeks ago, my brother said I should feel lucky I have hair. He hasn't had any since he was 30.

And that's another thing. I forgot my own age and last birthday my kids had to remind me I was 58 and not 59. 

[Reactionary Rage]

I now have white chest hairs. Big fuck off ones. I daren’t check downstairs

I’ve been going grey since I was 20 so that doesn’t bother me. When I discovered my first grey hair I did punch a hole in Mum’s kitchen wall though (true story)