What melts your heart?

[impressive]

An ER episode that did the trick was the one a couple of years ago where bald-headed-surgeon-guy-with-brain-tumor (Mark?) died in his sleep while listening to the headset his daughter had put on him playing "Somewhere over the rainbow."

Shit! He died? Shows you how long it's been since I've watched ER.

 

[impressive]

In my most recent episode I was in the car when I was just overwhelmed with feelings of sadness and rage, and I just started weeping. I had to pull over on a side street and sit there with my hands on the wheel crying while the dog looked at me and licked my hand. I think I embarrassed him. Then it stopped, and I wiped my eyes and drove home.

The image of you embarrassing your dog is very, very powerful. Says SO much in a very few words.

For me" Pachelbel's Canon in D, although quite common, will bring tears if I allow myself to fall into it.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Really high temperatures.

 

[English Lady]

Really high temperatures.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

What?

 

[English Lady]

What?

There's always one isn't there!

 

[Guest]

 

[scheherazade_79]

I'm as soft as soft can be. I start this thread now as I just sobbed my heart out over an episode of ER. Simply a few lines of "bright eyes" sung or said will make me well up, most Disney films will have me in tears at one point or another and anything vaguely romantic has the same effect.


How soft are you? what makes your heart melt and your teardrops fall? Also do you think this comes across in what you write? Have you ever written anything that's brought you to tears every time you've read it?

I have one story that gets me like that. "A fruitful Life." has a twist to it that I didn't envisage until it wrote itself and it made me cry writing it and makes me cry reading it.

Do you think this kind of heart melting soppiness is appreiciated here at literotica or is it all about getting off?

Any and all thoughts appreiciated

I have lots of things that bring me to tears. Watching Animal Hospital when an animal has to be put down is the worst. It's weird - I can watch human hospital documentaries and not get all that upset when people I don't know die, but with animals it's different. I always cry in ET. I also get quite emotional when I've been staying with a friend and know it'll be a while before I see them again.

I think heart-melting soppiness would be quite nice on Lit. I like stories that try to do something different. I've never had a go at writing anything heart-wrenching myself. I tried to get a few things out of my system when my gran died by writing down some of my best memories about her, but I couldn't finish it because I was crying so much I thought I'd end up short-circuiting my laptop.

Another weird thing - I also get a bit choked when someone who's been battling hard against all odds finally gets what they wanted. Those are the main things, really.

 

[English Lady]

Jammies..I cry when I'm angry too and it drives me batty. You can't say much when your sobbing...so ven when i know what i want to say I can't because I'm too busy snivelling.damned annoying.

Scheh -yeah ET gets me every time...as does Animal hospital. I saw one of the compilation ones just recently and saw some of the cruelty cases and really sobbed my heart out for the poor animals.

 

[Poussin]

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[logophile]

It's a Wonderful Life
Love Actually

Children singing in a group

Listening to the Joys and Concerns at church on Sunday morning.
Sometimes just being in church on Sunday morning

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Rodeo - Amy Ray

Being part of something bigger than me - i.e. holiday rituals, blessing ways, etc

Watching a woman work very hard during labor, especially when she's asking to have someone help with her pain and all we can do is love her and protect her.
Listening to my sr midwife give a pep-talk during transition


And here's a story from the other morning - I moved a little more than a week ago. It was the morning of the move and I came out into my living that was pretty much completely packed and ready to go. Normally, we have a cut crystal hanging in our living room window and when the sun comes in, it makes a million rainbows. The kids see the living room all ablaze and say, "Look Mama, the rainbows are here!" And then we count the rainbows and play with them.

On moving day, the crystal was already packed and my kids were staying at their dad's house. When I walked into the living, the sun was pouring in through the windows and without realizing it, I said outloud, "Look Mama, the rainbows are here." Then I started to cry. I sat down on my couch and cried. I missed my kids. And it finally hit me that I had survived my first year of being single. The kids and I had really made it through a hard hard year and I needed to cry about it.


But like Dr. M, I don't feel better when I cry. Just stuffy and with a headache.

 

[English Lady]

Poussin-awww the poor little fella. I'm so glad he found you to love him and nuture him.


Logo...Awww,*hugs* I miss my daughter most when I think of something she'd say in a given situation. Sometimes the words she says make me tear up

 

[Poussin]

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[davidwatts]

I've watched Casablanca about 200 times and I don't think I've ever gotten through it without choking up at least once, and not always during the same part either.

On The Beach, both when Fred Astaire revs up the car in the garage and Ava Gardner watches Gregory Peck sail away are also guaranteed to get me. Testament, when Jane Alexander talks to her dying daughter, ditto.

John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle. Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come.

I've lost it several times while writing stories also, and there have been a few nice responses from readers that have gotten to me as well.

The older I get, the sappier I become. A couple months ago I heard The Cowsills "The Rain, The Park and Other Things on the radio while I was driving and I got weepy. That was scary. The freakin' Cowsills?

 

[English Lady]

davidwatts...I think I've found more things to be sappy over as I've got older. Having my daughter definitely makes me more sappy *L*

 

[msboy8]

I'm as soft as soft can be. I start this thread now as I just sobbed my heart out over an episode of ER. Simply a few lines of "bright eyes" sung or said will make me well up, most Disney films will have me in tears at one point or another and anything vaguely romantic has the same effect.


How soft are you? what makes your heart melt and your teardrops fall? Also do you think this comes across in what you write? Have you ever written anything that's brought you to tears every time you've read it?

I have one story that gets me like that. "A fruitful Life." has a twist to it that I didn't envisage until it wrote itself and it made me cry writing it and makes me cry reading it.

Do you think this kind of heart melting soppiness is appreiciated here at literotica or is it all about getting off?

Any and all thoughts appreiciated

I would have to reply, "The Sun". It's about the hottest thing around and good at melting. Sorry EL.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Right on, logo, Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' just sets me off.

We do get sappier as we grow up - sorry - older. We begin to comprehend mortality, lose the natural egotism of adolescence and see God (whatever God) in the eyes of little children.

Makes you agree with the old John Denver song, Poems and Prayers and Promises - "It turns me on to think of growing old."

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I have lots of things that bring me to tears. Watching Animal Hospital when an animal has to be put down is the worst. It's weird - I can watch human hospital documentaries and not get all that upset when people I don't know die, but with animals it's different.

I had two ginger cats, a brother and a sister. The 4-year old girl was feisty and lovable but kept getting a mystery virus. I think people thought the vet and I were having an affair, I was at his surgery so often.

On the Sunday between Xmas and New Year 2003 the poor darling couldn't fight any more. The antibiotics had stopped working.

As churchbells rang, I held Barbie in my arms while the vet gave her an injection. She looked at us so pleadingly and trustingly. Afterwards the two of us just sobbed for ages.

Don't know if there's anything to it, but Barbie's brother often goes and sits by the fir tree that marks her grave in the yard.

 

[Guest]

Something which melted my heart today...

My youngest daughter is ill at the moment, so she's been home from school. She's got a bad cough and cold and I've been doing all I can to help alleviate the symptoms. I was sat on the sofa cuddling her ealier, and she said, "Mummy, I know why you were born."

I said, "Why, baby?"

And she said, "So you could be my lovely Mummy."

Awwww, bless her heart!!!

 

[English Lady]

elfin...awww.My nanna had 2 cats, Teddy died (old age) and Flora was heart broken...she died not long after.

When Charlie (Our cat) died the cat next door who brought him in (he knows we're a sappy lot here*L*) would meow at my door. I'd let him in and put out food. He'd walk up and down the kitchen meowing then go out again. I'm convincced he was pining for Charlie. He wanted him to go out and play (they were always together, snuggled up somewhere)


Lou...awww don't kids say the cutest thing.

My little one currently has a habbit of running up to me when we've been apart for a while (even if I've just gone to the shop for a minute) and hugging me tight telling me "I missed you mummy, I missed ya."

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Something which melted my heart today...

My youngest daughter is ill at the moment, so she's been home from school. She's got a bad cough and cold and I've been doing all I can to help alleviate the symptoms. I was sat on the sofa cuddling her ealier, and she said, "Mummy, I know why you were born."

I said, "Why, baby?"

And she said, "So you could be my lovely Mummy."

Awwww, bless her heart!!!

I just know it. It must be the most fantastic feeling in the world. Even the other half is beginning to see me as breeding material. We must be getting old.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

This is all so sweet......I have to leave before I gag.

Abs....coal miner.

 

[Guest]

I just know it. It must be the most fantastic feeling in the world. Even the other half is beginning to see me as breeding material. We must be getting old.

Yep, nothing beats it.

Getting old!? HA! You make me feel ancient.

Not really, life is just beginning.

And, one more smilie, just cos I can:

 

[Guest]

This is all so sweet......I have to leave before I gag.

Abs....coal miner.

Thanks for bringing me back down to earth, bitch.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

This is all so sweet......I have to leave before I gag.

Abs....coal miner.

I've read your stuff, you are really on the same side.