Anyone else cry or get choked?

[RubberFrog]

Re: Anyone else cry or get choked?

jk. Anybody that says they don't cry is full of it. It's a natural part of the human condition.

 

[treedancer]

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Spent a lot of years on the road sometimes three thousand miles a week. when you spend that amount of time driving a person tends to see a lot o f accidents. but nothing got this ex Marine blubbering like 9/11

 

[OLDSPUD]

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Comes and goes with different triggers, lots of different books about WW2, Rape of Nanking, War in the Pacific, some war movies, Saving private Ryan, and some others.<br /><br />I've always been such a cynical *****, but anything with my kids good or bad takes a toll.<br /><br />Trying to tell my wife how much I love her is probable the hardest thing to do.<br /><br />Spud

 

[crab bait]

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'lassie comes home' i'm a goner..

 

[ZodFutMk2]

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Good thing Costco sells kleenex by the gross.<br /><br />Too many wonderful things to list that touch my heart and remind me to appreciate my blessings.

 

[FLATHEAD]

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Heck and I thought I was the only one getting soft as I age. It just seems that the older I get the more that hard edge wears away.

 

[Mark42]

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I used to never cry at movies, get choked up over silly sentimental stuff, or feel my eyes well up on hearing of personal tragedy until I had been nearly killed in an auto accident, spent months in hospitals getting fixed, then fixed some more then some more until I said stop operating on me, I can live with this. <br />Then off to physical rehab and all the suffering the nurses put you through to recuperate...<br /><br />Yep, nothing like "been there done that" to help you relate to others tragedies.

 

[pjc]

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rarely, except tonight when my Bride called to check in. She is a CNA at an Assisted Living deal. Some residents there choose to die there. All legal and so forth.<br /><br />One Wonderful Woman is pretty close to being on Her way tonight. And is expected to pass tonight.<br /><br />Derned hard job my Wife has. Hairs on my arms went up while on the phone with my Bride...............I put our kids to bed a few moments ago, sleeping like babes,...thought about this topic, ........reflecting now....

 

[DJ]

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I get choked (PROUD TO SAY IT) when I face the American flag and sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance.<br /><br />Call me "old fashioned".

 

[lakelivin]

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Anybody else read Cormack McCarthy's Border Trilogy? GREAT read, Western about teens on the US/ Mexico border around 1950. About 5% of the book is in Spanish (dialogue spoken in the story in Spanish isn't translated, but you can still follow the story, even if you don't know spanish. But I did get my spanish/english dictionary out to look up key words if I couldn't get the gist of the dialogue from the context of the discussion). <br /><br />The Crossing , the second book in the trilogy was described by a reviewer as 'Heartwrenching', and I'd call that an understatement if I could think of a word stronger than heartwrenching...

 

[demsvmejm]

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Originally posted by deputydawg:<br /> More often than I can say. I have learned to shut it off when needed, but some nights when everyone else is asleep it just comes out. Not as much by the news reports, I can diss assoctaie from that easy enough, mine is real life.<br /><br />I even got choked up when I took my kids to see Care Bears live. Seeing the joy and amazement was too much. It re-fueled my mind for more.<br /><br />Things sure change when we get older and have our own children!

Knowing what you do for a living, and what you must see day in and day out, I think it is good that you can let it out and "refuel." Glad to hear you could have such a magical moment with your kids, they will undoubtedly remember that time with dad, but for other reasons than dad was choked up, and that's what I think is magical. I could not and do not want to imagine some of what you have. I have read some of your posts DD, and want to again say "Thanks for doing a job most of us really do not want to do."<br /><br />I am 37, and sometimes get choked up and think, "Why am I so emotional?" Sometimes it's for really stupid things. I get teary when kids are involved in any injury or harm. I've always been sensitive, but it seems to get worse (or better) as I age.