To feel overwhelmingly grateful and emotional!?

[Gratefullness]

Sometimes I get so overwhelmed with gratefulness and emotions that I want to cry? Anyone else?
It is always over seemingly simple things...like cooking dinner or getting into a warm bed. This is not intended to be a boast or a patronizing post. I am just asking as sometimes I feel Like I’m being OTT?? But I am so thankful and grateful for the little things at the moment after a rough year!!

I do get what you mean, I don't get overwhelmed as such but I do regularly stop to think how lucky I am to have all my basic needs met. I suppose it's a good thing that you realise as I think a lot of people don't have any perspective on things like that.

It's sad that you've had a tough year, but if it means because of that year you've now taken perspective and appreciate the little things then I say the year has had a really positive effect on your life?

I love the quote 'rock bottom was a solid foundation to rebuild my life'...think it was JK Rowling...? Anyway, maybe try to switch up the overwhelmed to a smile, just enjoy.

I do think how lucky I am occasionally due to a shit childhood, but it doesn't overwhelm me or make me want to sit and cry.

l totally get this. l've had a very rough few years, and every night when l go to bed l take a minute to reflect that l'm warm, fed, and safe. And it's so quiet.
l love my house, l have hobbies l like doing, and three little rabbits who are an absolute joy.
lt's taken me a long time to get here, but yes, l do get emotional about it. l think l'm very lucky and l'm very grateful for it.

Bizarre

@Bluntness100 I didn’t say i sit and cry...I said it makes me WANT to cry sometimes...A happy cry.

Not bizarre, some people have a really bad lot in life and I think it's important to feel grateful for what you do have. Better than always wanting more and more and more.

Eh, I know that's what you said, because I responded with it doesn't "make me want to" sit and cry,

@Bluntness100 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I get that. A sort of heightened emotional response. The flip side is I can get close to tears by a very simple thing like an elderly person shopping alone for one potato whose cracked voice suggests they haven’t spoken to anyone that day, or a very small child anxiously watching his mother when she is attending to something else. I blame hormones. I read things into situations which probably aren’t there. I tend to keep quiet about it.

I don’t think it’s weird but I do think you need to monitor and regulate your feelings if they get too heightened.

Have you ever been to the Sistine Chapel?

This is a very warm thread, and nice when we usually have catastrophising all over the place. Some times you do have to have a tough time to make you realise how lucky most of us are. Maslows Hierarchy of needs. My MIL used to think of something new to worry about as soon as one issue was sorted. I know its my age but in this time of terrible hardship in Syria , India and the list goes on, I do get impatient when people dont stop and reflect on all the needs that are supplied. The last three years have been dire due to the Brexit rows and now the election. But really, even though the NHS is in a mess ( it has been since I started working for it in 1969) whether Corbyn or Johnson get in, in a few months time the world will not implode and we will still feed out children. The rhetoric is pulling families apart.
Mindfulness is a bit fashionable at the moment but it really matters, especially for children, just to daydream and love life. We are having more and more worried children, are we making them anxious with our own concerns? I dont mean literally , but by atmosphere and a culture of worry? Animals can sense stress and so can children

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@DubiousGoals is this to do with the screaming lady or am I way off???

@FredaFrogspawn you just got me with the one potato thing😔
I can sometimes feel overwhelmed when I think about how lucky I am to have such an amazing husband. He says he’s just normal rather than amazing but I feel lucky. I very much count my blessings to be healthy too.

Yes, I get this!

I get you. I welled up recently telling a parent what good work her child had done this year.

She must think I am an idiot.

I do have a bad lot in life. I'm type 1 diabetic and have a disabled dc, but I still find it bizarre, it's my opinion 🙅

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@Gratefullness Yep, that's the one!

Just couldn't resist!

I also get emotional over little, random things

It's a good thing surely?

I don't (feeling emotional), but being happy with your life cannot be a negative!

I felt more like this after a couple of very hard years, including one day I was lucky to survive.

I also had a hard childhood.

I think going through tough times means that you can be really genuinely grateful for small things - like being safe, being loved, etc.

I actually always feel a bit sorry for anyone who doesn't have these moments - the more we can have of them the better, it's effectively what contentment (real sustainable happiness rather than fleeting moments) is based on.

The flip side is I can get close to tears by a very simple thing like an elderly person shopping alone for one potato whose cracked voice suggests they haven’t spoken to anyone that day, or a very small child anxiously watching his mother when she is attending to something else

I thought it was just me!