It's good to cry Monday MKF 01/20/03.

[Wytchi Grrl]

Hey all.

Well I was busy looking at some of the fantastic Vid's that Kitties have made in the past in pens achieve and some of them although excellent brought tears to my eyes because of the theme or just because of the beautiful way they displayed W/T love. The point is I really quite enjoyed having a good old sob at things intended to touch you.
My question for kittens today is, What never fails to make you sniffle, cause you to sob or bring tears to your eyes but all in a good way. Maybe something soppy or just sad. Maybe even when your favourite soap characters get married? I'm interest to see if I'm only soppy one out there

Wytchi lol

[urnofosiris]

Hmm I used to blubber very easily when watching movies or certain programs that involve both happy and sad stories. In private that is, I've hurt my throat and eyes quite a few times trying to stop myself from doing so when other people are around. For example I cried when Mufasa died in the Lion King. I mean come on, it is a cartoon about an animal and I already knew it was going to happen. Another example is watching a mother being reunited with a child she was forced to put up for adoption because of circumstances. I guess recognizing the emotions is what did it for me, whether it is profound happiness or sadness. However a few years ago my sniffling tendencies suddenly ceased. Right now I can safely watch any sentimental movie or show like a Vulcan (which does not mean I don't care).
Yesterday I did get watery eyed for the first time in a long while when I was watching a tv program about a Dutch childrens hospital. They showed a beautiful and brave little girl who died from cancer. Things like that should not happen. That got to me and I am glad it did. It had to. I don't mind that I no longer turn into the river Nile as soon as I see someone cry but somewhere in between that and being frozen solid would be nice.

[KittenPokerPlayer]

Those papers the SPCA sends you with all the abused animals and stories of rescues. I bawl my eyes out for those. And when I watch animal planets Emergency Vet. I don't like to see any animals hurt.

Some movies make me cry, but usually only when the charachter is crying. Sometimes I think tears are contagious.

~Erica

[skittles]

I never fail to cry each & every time I read the chapters from Little Women when Beth gets sick for the last time & dies.. and how the family deals with it... & how Beth dealt with it... every time..

Sometimes when I really need to cry & can't I will get the book out & read it just to release the tears... it always gets to me.. without fail.

[xita]

Yeah w/t can certainly bring out the emotions in me. Other than that it is kind of hard. Movies where Moms are kind and gentle make me cry. Beaches stirred a tear in me, I know pathetic. And that first season of china beach when they killed that young girl the donut dolly, that brought tears to my eyes.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day everybody!

[kukalaka]

Seeing people lose someone they love (in reality and in movies, books, whatever).

Seeing human stupidity leading to cruelty. Just on TV, luckily, but still. That would be documentaries about the holocaust, wars, ... because it's basically the same thing as above just for lots and lots of people.

And above all, seeing children who don't get to be children because they're caught up in grown-up idiocies like wars, have to suffer from hunger or "just" work all the time


Edited to add: Ooops, that read "in a good way", sorry

That very much depends on the mood I'm currently in. If I'm feeling all depressed already just about every sad movie makes me cry. Or sad music. Or sad fan-fic.

If I'm not depressed I usually avoid watching stuff that could make me feel that way.

[AlexisMQ]

xita - I ball evertime I see Beaches! *laugh*

Actually, I cry more at movies and tvs than I do in real life.... I think it is a form of escapism and serves as a release of tension for me. Heck, I have even cried at fanfic.... What can I say?

I hope that ya'll have a wonderful Monday..... I have to work evenings today... fun, fun, fun. At least it is pretty outside. And hey... only 24 days til Vegas!!! I need a vacation! *laugh*

Later, kitties.

[JulesP600]

Things that never fail to make me cry?

When the friends you really love do something totally lovely and unexpected.....like just turning up at your door to say "Hi". That makes me cry!

Also, when my pets are sick....it is so sad because they can't tell you where it hurts.

[Penrose Orleans]

Music has a way of making me cry more than any other media... especially lyrical melodies that are old and speak to whatever situation I'm in... that and feeling insecure about myself. That makes me cry! -Nora

[WiccansIllusion]

Xita I think your not the only one. I was at a sleepover with about 5 other girls, and we watched Beaches. Bad idea. Every single one of them started crying and wanting to call home to mom but me. I was just sitting there thinking, 'what, it's a movie'

Movies never really did make me cry. I guess having a mom who ran a video store didn't help. Oh well.

This morning I did lay in bed untill 2 feeling sorry for myself. Does that count as a good cry?

[La]

I don't cry nearly as much as my mom does when watching tv shows or movies, but whenever something is going to happen to someone and they really don't deserve it I will often start crying. Like at the end of the Joan of Arc miniseries with Leelee Sobieski. Every single time I see that, I get all teary because she's about to get burned I keep hoping that maybe this once she'll get to live. The Messenger didn't make me feel that way at all, which says a lot about the message the filmmakers were trying to portray...

[feena191]

I cry at almost everything (I'm such a a soppy mare), but I think the most embarrasing time I cried was when I was at the Pictures with one of my cousins. He's about 37, does body-building, rides a huge motorbike, & there am I, sitting there sniffling away in the dark.

The film?

Terminator 2 the shame

It's the scene right at the end when he is lowered into the molten metal.

Feena
-x-

[tommo]

Oh I love a good cry now and then. Especially then.

I cry at the oddest of things though; like G, I cried when Mufasa died. I also sobbed when the Beast died in Beauty and the Beast. I was so disappointed when he came back as the handsome prince. Eh.

I think what makes me cry most are real life situations. When I went to see my neice and nephew's Christmas plays, I coudn't speak for the lump in my throat. And sometimes, when they rush to me and hug me, I get distinctly verklempt.

The touch of someone who loves you; or their voice when you need to hear it most, or waking up with them every morning. I suspect these are the things that will make me cry. I try not to be overly sappy about things; but you know sometimes, I think you need to put cynicism aside and just go with the flow. Um, whatever that is.

It's really difficult for me to say what makes me cry on the whole, because I think for me it depends greatly on the situation and how I'm feeling at the time. But all I know is that I can't, under any circumstances, watch Dumbo. Oh god no. The scene with his mother when she's locked up and she's cradling him in her trunk and there's the lullaby and...

[xita]

Oh god ruth I hear you about Dumbo see that's the thing with me and moms I mentioned earlier. He's cradled on her trunk.. god that's just ..

And yes Alexis the time is getting nearer for Kitten Bash 2003, Las Vegas Style!

[Ellenore]

*cuddles everyone*

I always cry at this obscure county song called "How can I help you to say goodbye". It's so cheesy, but when the mother dies at the end I'm always bawling. And I'm usually so stoic about stuff like that!

(reminds herself to call mom)

[AlexisWillow]

I don't know what has happend to me over the past year or so, bt it seems like i am the soppyest i have ever been. Movies never made me cry before, the 1st one i cried at was ET when i was a ickle child i watched it on a test screen in the cinema my dad was a projectionist in, i watched it from the projection booth, and remember my dad telling me to try not to cry all over the machines!
W/T makes me cry during the really happy times and the really sad times... i think it's all very moving stuff that tweaks my emotional strings! The thing that really sets me off in TV is when a person dies, who's character is strong and loved, and i see the pain in those who have lost someone.... i just can't help it, i sit there sniffling in the dark!
Two weeks ago, my godsister saw her father again for the first time in 15 or so years, after he left the family with out saying a word. Now she all grown up, he decides to see her. Even though she was a baby when he left, she remembered him, and the look on her face the tears she shed... tears of anger and pain, all those feelings i felt with and for her. We cried.
On a happier note, when my best friend calls me up just to say she loves me... ahh happiness!

[AmberEyedDragon]

Well...I'm going to attempt not to embarass myself TOO much....so I'll just mention one of the things that makes me cry...every...single....freakin time...

Nicholas Sparks novels. Now....I know that the damn movie that mandy moore starred in KILLED the book, i hope everyone else out there will realize it too. His story A Walk to Remember.....i sob. I can pick it up anywhere in the book and i sob at the end every time. Every person I leant it to...4 female friends....1 male friend....2 parents of friends...allllll cried. On top of that, one of his other novels...The Notebook. Does the exact same thing. OY VEY

*goes to read one of them again*

[gspiggott]

Emergency Vets on Animal Planet whenever they put an animal to sleep.Actually I can't even watch it anymore. The last book that made me cry was An Army of Angels about Joan of Arc. She never gets a happy ending ,poor girl. Not just Dumbo's mom but Bambi's mom gets me too.

[Zippy]

I usually end up crying over really tiny little things. I tend to bottle things up inside a lot & sometimes I just need to let them all out.

On friday my boss was telling me how well I was doing at work and all of a sudden I was in tears. It certainly wasn't the reaction she was looking for when she said I could have a pay rise.

I only tend to cry at films if I'm on my own. I can just about manage to watch Dumbo, but I can't watch Watership Down, in fact if Bright Eyes ever comes on the radio I am in floods of tears.

[tommo]

I remember reading this book once when I was in hospital. And it was about a young soldier who went to fight in the First World War, and before he went, he asked his sweetheart to marry him and she said yes. Then he died. And I swear, I was sitting there in my hospital bed in tears because he was only 18.

Sigh. I'm a sap.

[Patches]

Awe man, Dumbo - reaching for the kleenex box.

I can't read The Velveteen Rabbit without balling my eyes out - can't even tell the story without getting all choked up and misty eyed.

Other thing that gets the lacrimal glands working over time is the song The Rose - Oh damn it, here I go again. A friend 'gave' me this song in high school. The memory is still vivid, and still bitter sweet.

Going over to "all purpose crappy feelings thread" and throwing a pity party, everyone welcome - then slinking off to pens to cheer myself up.

Cheers!!
Patches

[jixer]

Hello Kittens-

I'm an easy crier sometimes when reading. Christmas stories, pet stories, orphan stories, you name it. Rarely at movies. NEVER at work. Trauma Center/Hospital. It's just keep going there. But there are places there I don't go on slow nights when you have time to think and remember.

By the way, one of the worst Christmas tearjerkers for me is Frederick Forysthe's The Shepard.

Off to snuggle now and keep the blues away.

Jixer

[Rosenberg]

I cry at Dumbo when he sees his Mom in the cage and they try to touch one another. It gets me every time. The same thing with Bambi; I cant even watch that because it starts the tears flowing. I know theyre only cartoons, but

[atse28]

I'm don't usually cry in movies, or at TV drama series etc etc, I get sad but tears never really come to my eyes or anything.

Until....

I watched The Body....and from that point on, I have never been the same. It may be that the content matter was close to my heart as my gf's mother passed away in May 2002 but I've never bawled as much as I did in that episode and naturally in other W/T episodes.

[oneyedchicklet]

Hello Everyone,
I'm jumping on the Dumbo and Bambi bandwagon. Disney movies are always there when you need a good cry. Just think of Old Yeller.

I think the one movie that did me in for sure was (and I'm showing my age here) The Champ with Jon Voight and Little Rickey Schroeder (pre Silver Spoons and NYPD Blue days)as his young son. I think I went through a whole box of tissues the first time I saw Jon Voight lying on the table after the last fight and Rickey Schroeder was trying to wake him up. "Come on Champ, wake up, we've got a lot to do."
I was barely in high school at the time and went to see it with my mom and aunt. I felt stupid but then I looked over and both of them were balling like babies too.

Steel Magnolias was another tear jerker for me too. Still everytime I watch it I keep tissues nearby.

I work for a vet so anytime we have to put an animal to sleep, I seem to get a big lump in my throat.

Ok, now I'm all phlegmy. Oh well, I go and watch something cheery.

Love To All,
Barb

[maudmac]

I love a good cry.

It might be easier to talk about the things that don't make me cry. This would be a teeny tiny little post then.

The two things that get me the most are animals and mom stuff. (And Dumbo? Yeah, go ahead and put both of them together, I'll cry for days. I remember being traumatized the same way by Bambi. )

Off the top of my head, the two films that always, without fail, make me cry so hard I get a headache are Watership Down and The Joy Luck Club.

Watership Down is good for many cries, and it has what is, to me, the best cry in the world there at the end. When Hazel lies down and the Black Rabbit comes for him...I can't even think about it without tearing up. I think it's "Bright Eyes" that pushes me over the edge.

The Joy Luck Club pushes almost all my mommy issues buttons. I can pretty much cry continuously. In fact, I think Amy Tan could probably move me to tears with a cookbook.

Cryingest book I've ever read: The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy. It's a lot like Watership Down, but with elephants.

Real life stuff hits me just as hard, too. When they moved Keiko the whale from Mexico to Oregon by UPS, I thought I couldn't cry that hard. It just really moved me that so many people banded together to help make one whale's life better. Please never let me see anything on the news about a mass beaching. I will die.

I have had to stop watching most shows that have anything to do with animals. I will never watch Emergency Vets again. And what's that show...Animal Cops or something? I would need medication if I watched that show.

I'm also bizarrely moved by unexpected things. Like those Hershey's Kiss commercials that air around Christmas. Where the kisses are playing "Jingle Bells"? That one at the end, just ringing its little heart out...I'm so overwhelmed by the desire to congratulate it on doing such a good job, I can't stand it.

Am I insane?

(Don't answer that. )

[skittles]

You are not insane... nope, not at all...

{sorry, I had to answer that...)

[willow4tara2gether4eva]

I cry at the drop of the hat... "Steel Magnolias", "Beaches" , the last episode to any television show I watch, "Voyager" was a big bawler... you name it, I bawl...

then again I once cried during "The Muppets Take Manhatten"... so I am not exactly the best person to talk about the crying game...

[The Shadowcat]

For some reason, I cried every single time I've ever watched The Rescuers. It got to be so disturbing (the crying) that I just stopped watching, and haven't seen it in at least 10 years or more.

I also tear up everytime I hear "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tale.

[WiccansIllusion]

Actually I take that back. There was one movie I cried at: One True Thing with Renee Zelweiger and Meryl Streep. My mother and I saw this right after my grandfather had died of collon cancer. It's based off the novel by the same name, and the mother dies of cancer. Bad idea. Both my mom and I were bawling.