Sad things! What (non-real life) thing has made you cry recently? Songs, Books, films etc.

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I have a heart of stone and had never cried anything that wasn't real ever in my life: no sad songs, books, films or anything, though I did come close with the Dumbo "Baby Mine" song! (I rarely find comedies funny or scary things scary either)

But this weekend my DD showed me a video (below) by a musician she liked and it really affected me. I watched it again last night and sobbed for ages. It's animated animals FGS!
What has made you cry recently?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9EN9MIa3Kyc

No one? Ah, you're all hard as nails!

Baby Mine breaks me every time! I've turned into a regular film/tv/etc sobber over the years though 😄 Latest was Bohemian Rhapsody

Creep by Radiohead

I've been binge watching Downton Abbey lately, the episode where the former maid gave up her son had me in bits. Bloody motherhood changes you, I used to be cool man!

That is a weird video OP. Love the song though.

Ive been sobbing my way throught he reruns of Ghost Whisperer on Pick . Have turned way too soppy since I gave birth to DD.

I'm not a crier over real life at all but since having DDs I cry over TV, films and books at the drop of a hat. The latest was the Sainsbury's Christmas ad WTF! It's not even sad! The worst thing was I was watching it on YouTube in the car with them waiting for the school gates to open. so furiously wiping away tears and was all lovely and red eyed for the school run.

Yes I think time and motherhood make us all softer!
I love "Creep" it's one of my favourite songs and I want it at my funeral, but whilst I enjoy wallowing in its misery it's never made me cry!

The advert for the national lottery about the man who’s a hairdresser and cuts homeless people’s hair.
Actually makes me cry thinking about it

A cartoon popped up on Facebook yesterday. About a university for puppies to learn to be good guide dogs. The puppy failed the test and got kicked out only to be a real hero saving a blind lady who had wandered into the path of construction vehicles.

I had tears in my eyes. It wasn’t real! It was a cartoon ffs

I cry thinking about that East 17 song - stay another day. Since I found out it was written about a brother’s suicide the lyrics are just heartbreaking.

David Attenborough’s Dynasties - the one with the trapped penguines...

I'll never love again at the end of A star is born. Sobbed like a baby!

I saw a video on I think Twitter the other day. It featured a cute blond haired boy in a classroom. All the class were sitting at their desks opening their lunch boxes and eating.
This boy had a silver coloured tin tyoe box and you saw when he opened it there was no food inside. The video continued with him the room to go and drink water. I am extremely teary at this point.
Then the boy goes back to him desk and holds his food box, notices it is heavier and looks inside. Inside there is good from everyone in the class grapes and a classmate is eating grapes etc. Am now blubbing loudly!
Not sure if the video was about kindness or hungry children, or hidden hunger as I couldn't get to the end. Pretty powerful tho, I think because the child looked ordinary and well kept IYSWIM. But then anyone and especially children having nothing to eat is something that breaks my heart regularly.

Sorry about the typos ... damn autocorrect
He goes out of the room whilst the others are eating and drinks some water. When he returns there is food in his box.

Me and the other half cried through the grinch film at the cinema this weekend. Think that may be linked to the baby we lost in January. We are so desperate to start a family but circumstances mean we have to wait at the moment. Also petrified it won't happen for us. The grinch movie is all familys and think it just struck a nerve.

Ah, haven't started Dynasties yet, Unobtainable, am looking forward to watching it when DH comes back from working away.
That may well get to me: I seem to be more affected by animals than people!

Esssa

Bumping for the evening crowd... they're always blubbering!

I rewatched all the Harry Potter films recently and sobbed my way through the final two. Hedwig! Dobby! Fred! {Howls uncontrollably}

I have also cried at the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth recently.

Recently watched Charlotte Grey and Testament of Youth. Bawled my eyes out.

Rewatched the Book theif the other night and it went very quiet on the sofa.

The last episode of Upstart Crow a few weeks ago. From laughter to tears in half an hour. So sad, a bit like the last Blackadder.

I've Been doing a bit of care work lately (im a service manager so normally office based but we are short staffed so I'm covering a fair bit at the minute).
I've been a wreck most days. What gets me are the old pictures my older people have up in their houses. The lives they've lived. Here they are as kids, there on their wedding day, having a lovely picnic with their friends on the beach, holding their own babies, or glammed up for some now long forgotten party. Their whole lives mapped out on the wall and I see them as they are now-sometimes in a less pleasant phase for them-often they have dementia or are alone most of the time. I look at the pictures and it makes me sob because they never thought life would turn out like that. They were once as I am now. Busy and needed and well loved. It's just really poignant sometimes. It's also reminded me what a bloody privilege it is to do my job sometimes.

Oh bugger. I've just said a real life thing kind of! Sorry!!

I've mentioned this before, but I fill up every time I read this poem.

The Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin.

Tomorrow, when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass.
And as he stares into the sky, there
are twice as many stars as usual.