What strange things make you emotional?

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I've always been an emotional person, partly due to a neurological problem but I seem to be getting worse in my "old age".

I'm not a very patriotic person and I'm always a little about excessive patrotism but for some reason patriotic songs from other countries from other countries often reduce me to tears. I think it's because it reminds me how huge and diverse the world is.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=MogVdARCFgY This video in particular reduces me to floods of tears.

What odd things make you cry?

Old people eating on their own.

See old people struggling to walk and their on their own. I was once In work at a Gp surgery and a regular came in black and blue after a fall. She had a walking frame with the seat on it. She was really struggling to walk. And I couldn't stop crying. I went to the shop next door to calm myself down and she was in there and I rang my mum in tears saying I can't let her walk home but my manager is in and she won't let me leave. In the end I thought fuck it offered to walk her home in the middle of a shift (there was 2 other people in) and she sat on her little walking frame seat with her little legs dangling while I was pushing her home. Still upsets me now when I think about it. I still see old people coming into work and it plays on my mind if their lonely or struggling.

Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve. Always makes me sob.

Freed myself from decades worth of nonsensical church teachings some years back but some of those bastard hymns/choruses can still get the eyes sweating.

Infuriating

That solo choir boy singing the first line of "Once in Royal David's City" in carols from Kings on the TV on Christmas Eve. Gets me every year.

Another very odd one is American teenagers/young people. Not always but in certain situations. I was researching American colleges lately for a project and got very emotional reading about the colleges and watching their videos. I think it was partly regret on my part that I didn't take/have certain opportunities for various reasons.

But also how young and earnest they are. All those hopes and dreams they have and all that potential ahead of them. It moves me for some reason.

Why American teenagers particularly? Perhaps because Americans tend to be more optimistic or perhaps it's all those high school movies.

@ttpco gorgeous story.
For me its protests. Especially when they walk through the streets.

Watching marathons for me too.

Also an elderly gentleman in a suit and tie just to do his errands on a random Tuesday or whatever. Bonus points if he wears a trilby hat like my granddad did.

Lapwings.

I always cry at the cinema, regardless of movie genre. It’s so overwhelming I now bring sunglasses with me whenever I go.

Also Christmas carols/hymn’s - flood of tears 🤦🏼‍♀️

On BBC radio when they say "in new music we trust" it gives me a lump in my throat😂

People pulling over to let ambulances pass. Especially when there are multiple lanes of traffic jam and they all find their way onto kerbs, verges etc to let the ambulance through.

Military brass bands

At least one reveal in The Repair Shop

When I saw the Olympic torch in London, 2012, I became very emotional. The symbolism of hopes and dreams.

Yes to so many things relating to elderly people.

Saying goodbye to our old family car when we bought another one.

Christmas carols
Seeing a hearse

Elderly couples talking about their spouses, this happened a fair bit in that tv show "24 Hours in A and E". I'm not one to cry either so it really gets to me

Baby cacti.

The bit in the Paper Dolls when it says "the girl grew and grew into a mother." just breaks me.

Watching dogs work - sheepdog trials in particular. Welling up just thinking about it! I think it's to do with the level of connection between the dog and the handler, along with the dog doing something they love

There was an item about a nursing home on BBC breakfast.today A residents dog was allowed to visit 3 days a week I howled like an eejit cute/sweet things make me cry

Thought of another random one. At the end of pantomime we regularly attended in Belfast, the host/main tv personality person (May McFettridge for those who know), would say at the end, "may your God go with you" It got me every time! I think it was the "your" part. I'm not even religious.

The clap for carers during the pandemic had mr bawling every week.

The queen. There’s something so vulnerable about her.

Holding a newborn baby