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 Haka. I have absolutely no affiliation with the Māori people and will always support England when watching rugby. But it makes me cry. Everytime

Yeah, little animals on YT, really.
Recently, a bear cub being saved (mother nowhere) and the cub just fighting, screaming...
until he got a big fat bottle of milk 🍼 🐻
That's me, though 😁

At the school Carol service and the reception children come in dressed as angels, shepherds etc.

not now but when ds1 was a baby I used to cry at the A A advert when they used to play you've got a friend and the people got rescued.

When I come across photos of my son's teacher, taken before his daughter died.

When the L.A. refused to assess my youngest for an ehcp and the head teacher came to a meeting during half term, told off the LA representative and invited ds beloved teddy (who had also come to the meeting) to come and visit him in his office.

When ds2 and ds5 achieve things and I think of when we nearly lost them at birth (ds5) and aged 12 (ds2). I feel so lucky to still have them.

Bloody ‘Babe’, the movie about the sheep pig.

I don’t know what it is about it, but I’m blubbing from start to finish. It’s now banned from the household for that reason.

Most of the stuff on this thread and also 'and the girl grew...into a mother' in the book Paper Dolls. My kids stopped letting me read it to them!

We went black water rafting in NZ with a Māori guide and he did his haka in the pitch black of the caves.

Shivers don't cover it.

I blub at anything - particularly ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘War Horse’ (the movie, not seen the stage show)
Lately, The Cats Protection ad on TV (the domestic violence one) gets me right in the feels 😭😭

I was off work sick yesterday and was watching Rich House Poor House on Netflix and choked up at every episode.

Reading The Lorax, every time. Now banned from the house

Something specific ... I’m a teacher and I had a year 1 class ( so 5/6 year olds ) . I went through a horrible time in my marriage over Easter. The very first day back , I was really struggling- not outwardly , but internally . A child just came up to me with a picture .. she had wrote on it “ please don’t give up “ ( well - plees downt gif up 🤣 ) . She can’t have known I was upset and I don’t think at that age “ don’t give up “ would be something a chick would say to someone who was sad … it was only the second lesson too so it’s not like they had picked up on me being sad all day and I know I was my usual , cheery self with them . It was so random but it just felt so appropriate and it made me choke 🥲

When the wee adopted girl says to her mum "when I saw you, my heart fell in love with you!"

Also Christian the Lion hugging the men who released him back into the wild.

And the wee boy on crutches who says to his dog "Look Maggie, I'm walking Maggie"

And the dad who runs triathalons with his disabled son strapped to him because "we are a team".

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!!!

Oh sweetheart, I'm so sorry. What a thing to have to go through x

Oh god. Yes, I was the same with that book.

And The Paper Dolls. 😭

The things that my adult children write and draw in cards. The ones they gave my DH this Sunday for Father’s Day had me choked up - so lovingly appreciative and observant of all the quiet and self-sacrificing ways my DH gives his love and support to them. 🥲

Thanks for all these moving posts, everyone ❤️

I always feel emotional flying into Heathrow. It's that last bit where the plane banks and flies up the Thames.

My gosh, that sounds unforgettable (I’d be in floods!)

Reading these posts😭

Watching everyone sing auld lang syne on New Years Eve after the fireworks have been shown, reflecting on the year just gone and wondering what the new year will bring...

I’m on holiday and there’s two little sisters nearby who I’m seeing often, maybe 5 and 7. They hold hands tightly everywhere. I have to put my sunglasses on if I see them now as they just make me well up. I did lose my own sister so that definitely affects things but they’re just so close.

No matter What by Debbie Gliori:

Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, but some of those stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies. Love, like starlight, never dies

It used to get me everytime I read it to my children when they were little 🥹

Stories of children being serioulsy ill in hospital with the likes of cancers,leukemia and brain tumours and requiring ongoing treatment and long hospital stays.

The “Mind the Gap” announcement at Embankment https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/25/the-christmas-story-of-one-tube-stations-mind-the-gap-voice

On the day my Mum died, when we knew things were bad my husband popped upstairs to see her, she gave him the most beautiful smile and said " oh I did not know you were here". He was absolutely devastated when she died and sobbed and I was the one to comfort him (my own grief came later). I dont think that I will ever get over her lovely smile and his devastation at the loss of his Mother in Law. I often think of that day and how proud she was of her Son in Law.

When every I travel anywhere and they say "welcome to " which ever country it is on the plane , I have no idea why

I get so many of these. Traffic parting for emergency vehicles, anything where people come together to help or save someone or something.
Livestock transporters choke me up. I think how the animals should be wandering carefree in a field and instead they are crammed in a lorry driving through traffic, with no choice in it and probably terrified.