Are you sentimental?

gctest50 · 29-05-2014 06:24PM

Even the cats are in on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVK60Az5xk

FunLover18 · 29-05-2014 06:27PM

I hope OP is drinking lots of water because if she's watching all these videos she's running the risk of getting dehydrated from all the crying

Teyla Emmagan · 29-05-2014 06:30PM

Yeah, I overempathise. Cry very easily.

A good cry goes you no harm tho.

Legs.Eleven · 29-05-2014 06:31PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

I hope OP is drinking lots of water because if she's watching all these videos she's running the risk of getting dehydrated from all the crying

Tbh, animals videos leave me cold. If I see it's an animal vid, I won't even click on it. :-/

eviltwin · 29-05-2014 06:33PM

gets me every time

Legs.Eleven · 29-05-2014 06:39PM

eviltwin wrote: »

gets me every time

That's the stuff *sob*

FunLover18 · 29-05-2014 06:41PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Tbh, animals videos leave me cold. If I see it's an animal vid, I won't even click on it. :-/

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?

Legs.Eleven · 29-05-2014 06:42PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?

Meh!

eviltwin · 29-05-2014 06:45PM

Just for you Legs

Legs.Eleven · 29-05-2014 06:46PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Just for you Legs

Ahhhh I brought this into an English class as well!!! They DID cry for this one!!

maguic24 · 29-05-2014 06:47PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I'm very sentimental and really find it hard to hold it together sometimes. This morning was an example of that.

I showed the video below in class as part of an English lesson to some adult Spanish students and warned them before i started it that they were probably going to cry like I did. I'd already seen the video the night before, so knew what to expect but halfway through the video, I let out a sob and couldn't hold it together. I expected them all to be in the same state when I turned around but there wasn't a wet eye in the house and I felt like a right plonker wiping my eyes and blowing my nose while asking them their opinion on it.

Most liked it but one commented on how they hate these sentimental kinds of videos made to manipulate people in order to go viral (which it actually hasn't). I thought it was such a cynical viewpoint that I couldn't relate to at all, especially as the story is true and the people in it are obviously sincere; I thought it was beautiful tbh.

Is anyone else here as sentimental as I am or do others here hate sentimental stuff like this? Do you cry when you watch movies or see a baby laugh or someone offering their seat to an old person, for example?

Here's the vid (be warned: you might cry!):

http://vimeo.com/85667492

I didn't cry. But I think that's more because you said I might cry and my brain was all like nope, not happening. :pac:

I am sentimental though and I have cried watching certain films.

holystungun9 · 30-05-2014 09:29PM

WellThen? wrote: »

If this does not get even the blokes I don't know what will!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-C2IzE

Oh lordy, after watching that a few times, Youtube is making suggestions based on it. Short and sweet but not tear-inducing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnYxhGmFPck

Muise... · 30-05-2014 10:07PM

czechlin wrote: »

I am quite sentimental, to a certain extent. I really treasure some memories, especially the ones related to my grandparents. I can make myself a bit teary just thinking about some of them. And get a bit weepy when it comes to some movies, videos etc. But I'm not too keen on stuff that goes viral these days.
On the other hand I absolutely hate crying in public. That would be a very rare occurrence for me and I'd rather walk into the sing pole and make an utter tit of myself than shed a tear in front of people. One of my best friends is the opposite, when she's upset she shouts and cries and gets over it. Works for her and we all are well used to it by now. I am more reserved and this wouldn't be my thing at all.

Oh dear the leaking eyes in public.

I'm grieving now, and was salting my face for two hours on a train this morning. It's not the weeping that's embarrassing - I think I can do that relatively gracefully - it's the fear that someone will ask me kindly what's wrong and I'll howl like a banshee.

I don't get sentimental about people much, nor kittens and puppydogs - it's more big, vast, temporal things like the rising of the full moon or certain musical chords and timbres. I'm blaming the light- and soundwaves - those frequencies, they'd have me wretched sometimes.

30-05-2014 10:14PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Is anyone else here as sentimental as I am or do others here hate sentimental stuff like this? Do you cry when you watch movies or see a baby laugh or someone offering their seat to an old person, for example?

Here's the vid (be warned: you might cry!):

http://vimeo.com/85667492

I love things like that, although my heart does burst with too much emotion. A lovely story that deserves tears of happiness.

I watched this compilation of military personnel being reunited with their dogs after coming home, and it had me welling up for days whenever it entered my mind. Not just because of how the dogs loved their owners, but because of how the owners loved them back.

Animal stories always get to me. Kids would be too but I try to avoid ones that feature kids because I want to skip a total breakdown.

I'm probably way too sentimental but hopefully age will harden me, and I won't find myself randomly moved to tears by an old couple holding hands or by my little cousin walking the dog extra slow, because he's old and she doesn't want him to think he's holding her back.

I'm in bits now the floodgates have opened.

ETA: Just saw Christian the lion was already posted. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Zombienosh · 30-05-2014 10:18PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAcRKZxjy4

This............right in the feels.

30-05-2014 10:20PM

Zombienosh wrote: »

This............right in the feels.

Won't even click play, I know it won't end well for either of us

John_the_smith · 08-06-2014 01:36PM

I didn't cry, but it was touching. If I may put my two cents in, you shouldn't have to explain your feelings or justify your tears to anyone.

Shakespeare's Sister · 08-06-2014 01:40PM

Yeh I can be. It's not voluntary like.

The One Doctor wrote: »

Sentimentality is dangerous, so I don't use. it. It's the same force people use to justify not changing things that are in need of change. It's a very powerful and supremely illogical force.

Depends on the context. Me getting teary-eyed over a story about an old man and his dog or whatever is hardly dangerous.

Americans of a certain generation pining for a 1950s Ned Flanders world is probably the type of thing you mean I assume? In which case I'd agree.

ToddyDoody · 08-06-2014 01:51PM

"Sentimental: prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness or nostalgia"... in terms of feelings and tenderness: its usually linked to a music-cue. Nostalgia... I enjoy being reminded of things and people from the past, I actively search it out when it comes to music, I usually dig out old photos when I'm home. If I'm walking through a place I used to live I'll get flashbacks and consider it pleasant. But nostalgia is a fallacy / illusion. An idealized view of the past that's not real.

Legs.Eleven · 08-06-2014 02:35PM

Showed this video again to another student who's very high up in one of the biggest publishing companies here in Spain. She's one of these high-powered women who has loads of interests, is really interesting and lovely to boot. She was the only one who cried out of everyone (except the woman who cried because of the medication she was taking). She was very touched and wanted me to email the video to her. It was a funny moment the two of us sitting in her snazzy office having a cry together.

azezil · 08-06-2014 02:39PM

I'm not an emotional person and often find it difficult to empathize with people (usually after they tell me why they're upset or whatever I just look at them like they're being an idiot), so no I don't feel sentimental about anything really and can't see why anyone would cry watching that vid.

holystungun9 · 08-06-2014 02:47PM

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Showed this video again to another student whose very high up in one of the biggest publishing companies here in Spain. She's one of these high-powered women who has loads of interests, is really interesting and lovely to boot. She was the only one who cried out of everyone (except the woman who cried because of the medication she was taking). She was very touched and wanted me to email the video to her. It was a funny moment the two of us sitting in her snazzy office having a cry together.

Sorry but the "bold" words are what my mind shows me when I hear a story about a female teacher and female student.:pac:

spatchco · 08-06-2014 02:52PM

wish i could my act together i had to put my dog down on friday and i just cant get on with my life cant go out as the first question when i meet anyone will be where is the dog.

08-06-2014 02:54PM

spatchco wrote: »

wish i could my act together i had to put my dog down on friday and i just cant get on with my life cant go out as the first question when i meet anyone will be where is the dog.

I'm really, really sorry.

Been there, it's horrible and so hard to get across to non-dog people how devastating it is. I was told after losing my childhood dog to pull myself together 'It's only a dog'. He really wasn't.

Legs.Eleven · 08-06-2014 03:12PM

holystungun9 wrote: »

Sorry but the "bold" words are what my mind shows me when I hear a story about a female teacher and female student.:pac:

Hahaha. You've given me a laugh on this here Sunday evening. Fair play, sir.

entropi · 08-06-2014 04:07PM

Seen that video clip a while back and yes, while it was a great thing to happen to the guy that somebody noticed and he got to turn his life around, I didn't feel in any way sentimental. Sometimes, good stories arise out of bad situations. Thankfully.

conorhal · 08-06-2014 06:03PM

Almost blubbed, then saw the presented by 'Facebook Stories' in the credits and realized the mans tale had been missapropriated by a bunch of grasping corporate tossers as viral marketing guff to sell you on the 'power of Facebook to change lives' or some such cynical PR drivel designed to disguise the fact that they're a soulless corporate entity that uses peoples lives as a marketing tool for data mining.
There would be fewer homless people if you paid your taxes Facebook!

Sentemental? No, I guess not really....

McChubbin · 08-06-2014 07:29PM

Candie wrote: »

I'm really, really sorry.

Been there, it's horrible and so hard to get across to non-dog people how devastating it is. I was told after losing my childhood dog to pull myself together 'It's only a dog'. He really wasn't.

It's been 7 years since I lost my gorgeous furbaby Chloe and I still pine for her. She was more than just a dog-she was my best friend for 13 and a half years. I got her when I was 6 so we grew up together. Anyone who says "Ahh she's only a dog, get over it" needs a serious attitude adjustment.
The bond between a person and their dog is something not everyone can understand and it can be difficult to explain but it doesn't diminish its' worth.
Sorry to hear of your loss.

08-06-2014 07:41PM

McChubbin wrote: »

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Ah it's a good few years ago now, but it was tough enough at the time

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The same person who told it 'it' was only a dog told a friend who'd just had a late miscarriage that 'At least you didn't know it, so you won't miss it'.

The ability to empathise is not present in everyone, it seems.

spatchco · 09-06-2014 02:18PM

thanks for the kind thoughts on my loss.i just feel hard done by in the past 9 years i have had to put down 4 pets through bad luck and bad health,but this is the end never again ,my last pet was a recession dog we only had her 3 years ago she was 7-8 when we got her never dreamt that it was going to end like this...oh well have to get on with life again thanks i wont reply it just seems pointless,

Are you sentimental?

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