To ask what irrationally makes you cry?

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Mine's the bloody "In The Night Garden" intro. Every bloody night.

That Lloyds adverts really gets me, especially the disabled woman when she gets on the horse. My eldest DD is in a wheelchair and I always think how free and powerful she must feel riding along like that. Makes me all teary

Newborn cries when they have just been born, my own obviously but anyone's really I remember when I was pregnant being on the ward overnight to be kept an eye on. Wandered out to get a coffee and heard a woman in the delivery suite screaming then brief pause then babies cry and the woman saying 'oh he's lovely' No idea who she was but that's always stuck with me. I sobbed

That came out like complete gobbledygook. Bloody phone. You get the jist

Sometimes Stricly Come Dancing is just SO pretty, the lights, the glitter, the music, the smiles .... It makes me overwhelmed and tearful!

I went to see the lion king with dh a few years ago, and cried because a little girl dressed up as an elephant looked so happy!

I also cry at many a Disney movie, and just looking at dd because I love her so much.

Yes, YES Gardenbirdy. I tried to tell someone about that Simpsons episode the other day and started crying!

I was reading Dogger to DD the other day and started crying.

Not so irrational:

'To George Bailey, the richest man in town!'
'Daddy, my daddy!' (Crying just typing that FFS)

The bit in Titanic where Rose paddles out into the freezing water to get the whistle out of the dead man's mouth so she can call the boat to save her.

The Lava Song. Help me find someone to lava . Reduced me to flitters much to DS's disgust .

Oh god I cry at Lava every time, liked it more than inside out and didn't cry at Bing Bong.

DIY SOS every time & Nativity, that whole "sparkle & shine" gets me teary

I recently took a job at a Pre-School and was asked to take some of their policies home to read and sign. I read the fire evacuation procedure and had a lump in my throats and started to feel a bit shaky. The next one was their uncollected child policy and I was feeling worse and worse until they stated that they would call social services if all attempts to contact parents were unsuccessful. I imagined a little 3yr old all alone being taken to a stranger's home with no idea where Mummy and Daddy are and I started to cry and had to leave the rest of the paperwork and go and gather myself!

The deaf choir on Glee signing Imagine by John Lennon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUSa1kVyHk

Puff the Magic Dragon
The Terry Wogan tribute show which was on BBC 1 last week
David Bowie dying
Christmas Carols
You are my sunshine
The end of Drop Dead Fred

There are too many to even list. I really do cry at everything.

When my Dad used to play "Halfway Down The Stairs" on the piano, when I was a child. I used to hide under the table and cry.

At least when I hear that music now, I no longer hide under the table.

And the Rachmaninov music from Brief Encounter. Gets me every time.

I'm sat here sobbing over Obese - A Year To Save My Life on Sky Living. So many things make me cry. I've always been a bit of a crier but peri meno has made it much worse .

Sobbing at these lists... keep managing to pull myself together and read along a bit and then someone will mention the knitted dog or the horse through time and I'm off again!

Sometimes I just find myself thinking of my (very nearly completely grown up) children and tears coming to my eyes at how wonderfully they've turned out despite some challenging circumstances during their childhoods. Plus anything with dogs or cats or horses, particularly big old dogs, since we lost ours in May...oh dear, here I go again...

people winning or finishing races - doesn't have to be anyone I know taking part, anything from a local Race for Life to The Olympics on tv and I'm in bits.....

Plus anything with dogs or cats or horses, particularly big old dogs, since we lost ours in May...oh dear, here I go again... Zap.

Thanks, Heman

Bagpipes and the BareNaked Ladies song 'if I had a million dollars'...

scoopskipotato yes!
Also a lone piper
The book The velveteen Rabbit - can not read it to the kids!
Billy Joel's Always a woman.

I physically can't watch dumbo! Even just thinking about the bit where he's taken away from his mum makes me cry! Ad the song! Everytime! 😭

I can'Iwatch Dumbo either gives me nightmares on top of the uncontrollable sobbing and utter grief. Up was pretty brutal too and I who the fuck thought the story of Bambi would make good children's viewing?

Big, fat tears rolling down my stupid face reading this thread 🙈

Before DC: cried at 85% of things. After DC: tsunami of only-just-withheld tears because of ALL THE FEELS. At EVERYTHING.

Maggie Gyllenhaal once said that children come with chisels, that they chisel your heart wide open.

Somehow everybody could suddenly be your child, because you realise they are some woman somewhere's child. I think that's often what causes the crying.

Hearing ambulance sirens in rush hour and all the cars immediately parting like the Red Sea to help them get to the poorly person.

Little kids in my local park collecting conkers.

Waking up at 3am to the sound of an outboard motor, to see my enormous BSH cat in profile, standing on my husband's chest and thunderously purring into his face.

Christenings and naming ceremonies - little babies being cherished and surrounded by love.

Sunshine streaming through stained glass.

Nursery pick-up time, when my son sees me and says 'It's MY mummy! MY mummy!' and has to tell his friends, as he's running towards me. Reminds me of the last scene of The Railway Children and I have to dig my nails into my palm to woman up. 😭

The 93 year old gentleman who tends the beautiful garden at the blue plaque house round the corner from me. The care he puts into the beautiful dahlias that look like lanterns in the dusk.

The last 50 pages of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. Scratch that - ALL of Harry Potter. Thestrals? Being kind and brave and loyal? Love continuing through time, no matter what? WAAAAAAAH

I could go on for pages and pages but I have about 26 bottles that won't wash and sterilise themselves.

Thank you to everyone on this thread. Reading many of these posts has been like a big warm hug.

Ordinary girl
I burst into tears at the Harry Potter studios,when I walked round the corner into the Hogwarts castle room. It was winter so covered in the snow. I just wasn't expecting it to be there, it was just sit breathtaking I cried.