What makes you emotional?

Holly - I think you are right re 'hardened'. I say to my DH it's as though I have become immune. I am 64, and have had so many relatives and friends die (young and old) and other horrible life experiences, I now feel as though I am becoming almost immune to tears. Yet I can cry over a stranger that I didn't even know. I have a friend who has had some awful things happen. She always says 'I can't squeeze any more tears out'.

Oh Yes!! That's a real weepy. Thanks

Off the top,of my head Lona, Bette Midler's film, Beaches?

So why did I only shed a few tears?

It's strange isn't it when that happens. When my Dad died, I bawled my eyes out at the crematorium (I was around 36 years old) and when my Nan died (I would have been about 12 years old) I became hysterical at graveside. Other deaths of people I have loved have saddened me, the odd tear or two but nothing on that scale. Maybe over the years we become 'hardened' - it's the only thing I can think of.

Karen Carpenter was wonderful, several of her songs I associate with meeting my husband, eg "It's only just begun".
I have the same tendency to weep with certain kinds of music, but I still have some guilt about not weeping when my parents died. I loved them both very much. Dad died first, suddenly, and then I was able to spend the last 10 years of Mum's life near her. We were very close.
So why did I only shed a few tears?

Oops, meant to put a link for those who haven't heard it or those who like it also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWThwGj8qM

I find the older I get, the less things seem to move me to tears but one song will, every time but it's because it's so close to how I feel. I have left this on a clip to be played to my son and eldest granddaughter when I have finally stepped off this merry-go-round to let them know, finally, just how important they were (I would never tell them exactly how I feel, way too depressing for them) and how their very presence in my life helped so much; it's The Carpenters 'Won't Last A Day'

Day after day, I must face a world of strangers
Where I don't belong, I'm not that strong
It's nice to know that there's someone I can turn to
Who will always care, you're always there

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

So many times when the city seems to be
Without a friendly face, a lonely place
It's nice to know that you'll be there if I need you
And you'll always smile, it's all worthwhile

If all my friends have forgotten half their promises they're not unkind, just
Hard to find
One look at you and I know
That I must learn to live without the rest
I've found the best

Such a beautiful song sung by the wonderful Karen Carpenter. Right, I'm off to dry my eyes again now

I'v always feel very emotional on remembrance sunday. All those brave now very elderly (mostly) men remembering their fallen mates and all the horror they endured. They march past ram rod straight. Heads up, eyes forward. I weep buckets and buckets. Bless em and the sacrifice they made for us

Moon River, and Stranger on the Shore by Aker Bilk.

Also Groovin' by the Young Rascals.

I'm all choked-up reading these posts!

Oops I tried to put that in italics and failed.

That must have been beautiful at your husband's funeral. My friend had Elvis' You Were Always on My Mind played at her husband's... cue floods of tears. Music maketh man.

gilly we'd make a good pair. I love Jim Croce too... "^I'll have to say I love you in a song^. Lovely.

The bit near the end of Titanic, and the hymn Abide with Me for starters...many more!

So much music mentioned on here, I'll walk with God, Albinoni, Honey, Scarlet ribbons.
I love Mario Lanza, such a beautiful voice, but the piece that gets me most is the Bruch violin concerto. It is so poignant.

Films also make me emotional, but can I think of one......................no!

Music wise - Scarlet Ribbons by Harry Belafonte always gets me blubbing.

Oh I love "country music" Grannyknot even though some of the lyrics are very depressing indeed. Some times a good cry makes me feel better!

Glad you liked Josh Groban. I agree he sings it beautifully.

We played Time in a bottle by Jim Croche at my late husbands funeral. My daughter and I felt the words said everything we felt on that day. I still can't listen to it without bursting into floods of tears.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM&feature=kp

Gilly you'll have me weeping into my keyboard at work re JG - that is really beautiful. I remember "Honey", am going to listen to it now. Some of the country music lyrics are the best for weep inducing also.

God be in my head.
Played at my parents wedding and their funerals, also at my wedding and Peter's funeral.
I've asked for it at mine!

But not before the GN party on Saturday

The song " Long Ago and Far Away". Apparently my father sang it to my mother on their wedding day.

My brother, sister and I chose it to be played at his funeral as we thought the words so apt.

"Long ago and far away I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me.
Long the skies were overcast but now the clouds have passed
You're here at last!"

My mother had died 2 years before him.

I think as we get older, we become ever more sentimental, I wonder why that is? Music 'gets' a lot of people and hearing certain poetry read. We think more about the people in other countries that live miserable lives, and also people here [especially children] who live sad miserable lives.There is so much unhappiness in the world. Perhaps now we have more time to think about things than we did earlier in our lives, I now won't watch anything harrowing on tv, as I don't wish to think about it later.There are different sorts of emotion though, and we can't say why a piece of music affects us, it's just the beauty of it somehow isn't it?It's very strange. I can understand why we find a child appealing or a scene, but have never got why music can bring such emotion.If there are memories attached to the music, then that is understandable, but there are lots of pieces that have no memories for me but that are just spine tingling and emotional.Hearing poetry read well has much the same effect [but less so.]

'Gone too soon by' Michael Jackson.

I would like it at my funeral - I hope I can hear it wherever I am transported to.

"Somewhere over the rainbow" -my mother used to sing it to me and I can't hear it even now without crying.

And Abinoni's adagio - a real tear raiser. Mum again!

DD just texted - she has just sent her lovely Y12s into their first exam, DGS into a GCSE, and DGD into an "A" Level. Says she's in bits!

I prefer Josh Groban's version of "You raise me up" Grannyknot .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxrX42WcjQ&feature=kp

Have a listen see what you think?

Elderly well dressed chap in the town yesterday playing Morning Has Broken. Think it was on a tenor recorder. So beautiful. Didn't make me well up though. Made me happy.

I know its really corny but "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough really starts me off.

I think its the line that goes..............

One day when I was not at home and she was there all alone, the angels came............

I have a lump in my throat just typing the words. Crazy innit.

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