What touches your heart?

Iwonder777 · 2020-12-04T21:55:07+00:00

For me, it's genuine affection between, for example, an old couple. I love seeing old couples walking hand in hand down the road. Or For example, that adorable old couple on goggle box who have now passed on. Leon and June. What about you [smile]

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 04/12/2020 22:00

Same as you op! Makes me go awwwww when I see elderly couple holding hands.
My little dd (3) when she wakes up in the morning and comes down and wants a cuddle, so warm and snuggly and lovely.

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Iwonder777 · 04/12/2020 22:04

That's such a gorgeous stage too my guys barely say morning now sniff

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blackpoolsneighbour · 04/12/2020 22:04

Nothing much. I think it's silly when older couples walk along holding hands, they aren't lovesick teenagers. The only thing that I think is even more pathetic is couples where they walk along with the man's hand in the small of the woman's back.

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 04/12/2020 22:14

Arent you jolly Blackpool!

Anordinarymum · 04/12/2020 22:17

@blackpoolsneighbour

Nothing much. I think it's silly when older couples walk along holding hands, they aren't lovesick teenagers. The only thing that I think is even more pathetic is couples where they walk along with the man's hand in the small of the woman's back.

Have you thought that perhaps one of them might be unsteady on their feet and needs the handhold and the other is being caring by holding the hand knowing they are providing support.

Just a thought

blackpoolsneighbour · 04/12/2020 22:17

@EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide

Arent you jolly Blackpool!

Yes, lots of things make me happy just not soppy stuff.

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Iwonder777 · 04/12/2020 22:18

There Must be something Blackpool lol

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BitOfFun · 04/12/2020 22:18

The horses on the Lloyds Bank adverts.

bearlyactive · 04/12/2020 22:20

Threads like this!

Sarahlou63 · 04/12/2020 22:24

My animals. A horse coming across a muddy field to share a breathe. Giving a skitish goat a good scratch on the shoulder and watching her 'shimmy' away and jump around in happiness. Feeding chickens by hand and listen to their innnane chatter. `But mainly the dogs, the old blnd boy amazes me everyvday

caringbutshattered · 04/12/2020 22:25

My friend earlier ...

I sent her a Christmas card that I chose specifically for her, haven’t seen her all year and we’ve both had a horrible time of late . Have been desperately missing her and sent card in the hope it would give her a smile..

She texted earlier- ‘how perfect was your lovely card?!’ ... what a huge lift that has given me - nobody’s said something so kind in a very long time .. and it clearly made her smile too so I’m delighted .

So I suppose that’s what’s really touched my heart today !

Echobelly · 04/12/2020 22:26

Kindess really, seeing it or being on the receiving end.

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Iwonder777 · 04/12/2020 22:27

I love all those examples

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Spied · 04/12/2020 22:31

My 11yo DS asking for a cuddle.
Watching dd playing with her friends. She's very sociable and I'd have loved to have been like her when I was a child instead of being the awkward, outsider.

Stationfork · 04/12/2020 22:32

Just thoughtfulness really. I returned home at 2am after an awful late shift this week to a bunch of flowers on my doorstep from a dear friend that I miss so much! Just for no reason other than she is nice.

People at work making someone a cuppa just from looking at their face and knowing they could do with one.

Molly333 · 05/12/2020 06:37

Being at home with my family in the warm . Baking
Doing something nice for others
Also i like walking with my partner holding his hand as it makes me feel wanted and loved after being a single mum for years
Oh also my cat

Bluesheep8 · 05/12/2020 07:41

Nothing much. I think it's silly when older couples walk along holding hands, they aren't lovesick teenagers.

Tell that to someone who has Parkinson's and still wants to be out and about.

Pickypolly · 05/12/2020 07:48

Yesterday, a lady with dementia asked me if her dad had arrived yet to pick her up.

She is 95.
I know, stuff like that happens all the time in elderly dementia, but it just struck me right in my heart.
She was smiling so sweetly, her hair combed, teeth cleaned and her cardigan on ready.

Simple, desperately sad, just got to me in that moment.

SurreyHillsGirl · 05/12/2020 07:53

@blackpoolsneighbour

Nothing much. I think it's silly when older couples walk along holding hands, they aren't lovesick teenagers. The only thing that I think is even more pathetic is couples where they walk along with the man's hand in the small of the woman's back.

What a lovely uplifting post

SurreyHillsGirl · 05/12/2020 08:04

Animals. They absolutely amaze me and make me very emotional. I’ve always been a huge animal lover

My dogs love me so deeply and so unconditionally, they melt my heart every day. The greeting I get when I’ve only been out for 20 minutes is so heartwarming, you cannot help but feel happy around them. They touch my heart every day

When little children want to stroke my dogs. I love that, it makes me very happy when children are being brought up to respect and love animals

When people triumph over adversity, I sometimes feel overwhelmed by emotion when I read or hear about someone achieving something even though the odds were against them

Seeing children on TV who are suffering in wars and conflicts. This touches my heart but in a painful way

SurreyHillsGirl · 05/12/2020 08:06

@Pickypolly

Yesterday, a lady with dementia asked me if her dad had arrived yet to pick her up. She is 95. I know, stuff like that happens all the time in elderly dementia, but it just struck me right in my heart. She was smiling so sweetly, her hair combed, teeth cleaned and her cardigan on ready.

Simple, desperately sad, just got to me in that moment.

Oh that is so so sad

AtlasPine · 05/12/2020 08:08

Little children being loving and protective towards their baby siblings.

Dogs being good boys and good girls. That loyalty! Their pleasure at being appreciated.

Students at school who rally round to look after a peer who is distressed or ill. Recently, a group of students with SEN who caught a friend as he fell as she fell in the playground at the start of an epileptic fit, making sure she was safe then sending someone to find a teacher.

Those tired exhausted-eyed young women which London is full of - often with limited English and big bags of shopping - being gentle and kind to their little children on the bus at the end of a long day - offering me their seat because I’m their mum’s age. I want to hug them and make them tea and tell them things will get easier.

The elderly lady living on my way to work who watered the little window box her kind young Russian neighbours set up for her. She watered it every morning with a teacup as I passed her flat and we’d have a quick chat. That window-box gave her so much happiness. Every day she told me they had given it to her - she was so grateful.

Small acts of kindness always lighten the heart.

Frownette · 05/12/2020 08:16

I just drew the curtains and felt a bit horrible it's still dark out so I can't switch off the light.

I can't find my bank card so will have to call into branch later and remove money.

Feel happy though.h

Frownette · 05/12/2020 08:17

Without the h

thebabessavedme · 05/12/2020 09:48

babies and small children and tbh its worrying me! I've never liked either very much but since becoming a nana and menopausal I seem to have turned into one one of those wierd old ladies who peers into prams and coos at strangers babies and makes remarks like 'oh how lovely to see them all dressed in white' nappy adverts can bring on tears and dont get me started on those charity adverts with blind/cleft/war torn children. (yes, I have signed up and pay monthly)