Things that choke you up

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I choke up when I see an ambulance pass by and the traffic moves, letting it pass.

Something about humans recognising for a second that they have to stop and help for the greater good.

The pandemic. I'm still very moved by all the loss of life, the Long Covid victims still suffering today, the plans that were shattered, the heroism of health workers, the stoicism of all the 'key workers' who just had to keep going, and the small kindnesses of people everywhere. It's left big scars on society and I'm sad that we don't acknowledge this.

I don't cry (antidepressants) but Breathtaking squeezed a few tears out.

Any time I try to talk to DD about collective action. The Miner's Strike and Dagenham women, the Battle for Cable Street. Every time DD pats my arm and rolls her eyes.

People greeting loved ones at airport arrivals. Gets me every time.

A better question would be what doesn’t make me choke up.
Strictly when the music, outfit, routine etc all come together perfectly. The repair shop on a regular basis. A beautiful sentiment written in a card. A thoughtful gift. Saying goodbye. When my children , nieces or nephews send a thoughtful text. Top Boy, the reality that this is some children’s life. Moving On by James. TikTok where a granddaughter put her child on her grandparents doorstep and knocked the door for the grandparents to have the surprise of their great grandchild there.
Basically, anything.

Seeing pics like this...

Other people getting tearful. It's like my tear ducts come out in sympathy

Oliie and baby Tato

Elderly couples holding hands and being in love 🥹

My husband's tie, hanging on the newel post of the bannisters. He hung it there on the night of our wedding and it has been there ever since. He died 9 months after we married, I can't bring myself to move it.

Oh god everything and it's quite embarrassing.

DS 10 sports day today, I sat and watched him laughing with his friends having a great time, he looked over and blew me a kiss!

@Ratfinkstinkypink I'm so sorry. Life is so cruel and unfair.
Leave it there for as long as you want to xx

Flying into Dublin airport especially at night. I always feel really emotional. I live in Ireland btw!
I think it stems from when I was a teen doing an au-pair stint abroad and I was so homesick. I thought I’d never get home. So even now at 44 I just love being home.

Videos of dogs losing their furry little minds when their owners come home from a long trip away or hospital stay or something. That kind of unconditional adoration makes me happy cry.

Hearing any of my mum's funeral music. I cried in Sostrene Green shop when Pavane for a dead princess came on...

Same here😂

I’m the same with ambulances.
And if I see a funeral car that’s at the slow procession bit of the journey.
During covid, when the supermarket shelves were empty, there was a picture on the front page of a newspaper of an old man standing in an empty isle with a shop basket in one hand and a list in the other, looking utterly bewildered - totally floored me at the time, and I can still get bit tearful thinking about it now.

I remember that picture.

A lot of the hype that prompted panic buying was spread by social media.

Those who weren't on social media (for example, the old man) were totally confused.

That made me cry as well.

Loads of things since i had my daughter, she's nearly 8, i thought it'd have eased or gone by now! I choke up at Christmas carols, my daughter getting a good parents evening report, lots of things going on in the news.
@Ratfinkstinkypink I am so so sorry for your loss. x

This, and pretty much only this. I don't cry at anything, but cannot get through this scene without a massive lump in my throat.

Oh yeah..Christmas music. 😭 My brother died last Christmas and I’m already dreading the carols and the usual Christmas tunes. Don’t think I’ll ever be able to Listen to Coldplays Christmas lights ever again.

Flash mobs.
Parades with marching bands.
Firework displays.
Kids singing Christmas Carols.
Happy endings in films.
I'm a giant soppy mare.

Reading this book aloud to my children. To any children!

Once There Were Giants amzn.eu/d/dQL6Fip

Mamma Mia 2.... I was raised as a single child by a wonderful wild single mum. She died just before I became an adult... this movie just hits home

And, yes, "My Daddy!" in The Railway Children. Book or film.