Do you cry easily at sad movies or sad news?

@TheHorse (218464)
Walnut Creek, California
November 14, 2015 3:48pm CST
I think It's interesting how different people respond differently to sad movies, sad news, or sad songs. When something happens like yesterday's terrorist attacks in France, I become angry, but not sad. I want to do something, though I don't know what. Some of my friends tell me they shed tears. But show me a sad movie, like The Notebook, and I'm a goner. Even a sad song, like Vince Gill's Go Rest High Upon that Mountain, will produce tears. Are you like me? Or can you always keep a stuff upper lip? Does sad news get to you in the same was as sad movies or songs?
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purplealabaster
@purplealabaster (22091)
• United States
14 Nov 15
I am totally going to ruin my image on here for what I am about to say, but I am a total sucker for sad songs and sad movies. If the movie or song can move me to tears, then it is a really good movie, in my opinion. For instance, "The Notebook" made me cry, but "Ghost" could not get even a tiny shimmer in my eye. There are some movies, like "Remember the Titans", where I start tearing up before anything even happens, because I know what is coming.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
@purplealabaster I haven't seen Mighty Joe Young. Will have to add it to my list.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
I'm glad The Notebook gets you too.
Cynthia Owens
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
14 Nov 15
News saddens me, but not usually to the point of tears. Like you, I get angry. This is the main reason I seldom watch the news. Movies, literature and songs on the other hand, get the best of me. I don't know why that is. It seems real life would sadden me more.
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katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
15 Nov 15
@cindiowens I can't handle the news either. Stories of animal or child abuse just makes me sick. Not sad to the point of tears, just sick and angry and disturbed that we live in a world where people do such things.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I often feel manipulated by the news. It puts me in fact-gathering mode. With songs and moves, I'm there to be emotionally involved.
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Cynthia Owens
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
15 Nov 15
@TheHorse Maybe that is it. The emotional involvement.
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Marja
@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
16 Nov 15
I just heard a beautiful love song - the words were written by @dorianna - and it made me cry. It described a relationship that was so beautiful. it touched me emotionally..
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Marja
@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
16 Nov 15
@dorianna Yes, my friend - keep writing, and others can enjoy your poems. I have written a few poems too.. Here is a link, one poem is number 19
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Nov 15
@buenavida Is that the song above?
dorianna
@dorianna (509)
• United States
16 Nov 15
I cannot express the heartfelt warmth to know that you were so moved by the song.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (166660)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Nov 15
I become overwhelmed with emotion and tear up. Letting out emotion is healthy. I get angry and wish I could do something too.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (166660)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Nov 15
@TheHorse ..It makes a person want to be sure they can protect themselves. I wonder if we will see that in the streets. A lot of people packing. I would sure think of doing just that.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Nov 15
@celticeagle I've never owned a handgun, but I would like to see more law-abiding citizens armed.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Nov 15
Last night, I got so ticked off, I actually checked my little .22 rifle and ammo to make sure they were around and ready. (Don't worry--they're stored separately.)
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peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
14 Nov 15
I sure have done that before sad part gets me every time.
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peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
16 Nov 15
@TheHorse That might be the logical thing to do.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Nov 15
@softbabe44 Kind of like how a nice rain cleans the air.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
Sometimes I'll even seek out a sad song if I've been toughing it out for too long.
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Susan
@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
15 Nov 15
@TheHorse I always cry at sad movies. I can't seem to help myself. Crying at sad news is a different story, sometimes I don't trust all that I hear.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (112770)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Aug 19
Wow, apparently this was your first response on Mylot. I'm the same way, I don't trust the news but I do cry if a movie is sad.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
The Notebook gets me every time I watch it. Even the scene from Lion King where Mufasa talks to Simba from the clouds gets me. I lost my father when I was 21.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
@rebelann Not Susan! She's a veteran here.
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Gabs
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
14 Nov 15
Yes I am a Person who cries at sad Movies but things like what happened in Paris last Night makes me really mad and my heart is heavy for the innocent People and their Families I have lived with terrorism for a lot of years as I am an Ex Army Child and an Ex Army Wife But this is so awful
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I've witnessed and experienced more than my share of urban violence, corruption, etc., but never terrorism.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
15 Nov 15
Sometimes nothing gets to me, other times the sappiest movie will. I prefer happy endings, though. Life is too heartbreaking to spend my time taking in more heartbreak.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
But I think the heartbreak makes us appreciate the good times more.
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Patsie Hatley
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Nov 15
yes I d c y at sad movies not sad songs soi m uch b ut sad movies speciallydurng the second world wat when so many war movies were made I was bawing at things that happen.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Nov 15
When I watch good war movies, like Tora Tora Tora, I get more focused than emotional.
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Hope
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
15 Nov 15
Yes, I'm a cry baby! The news out of Paris and many other places breaks my heart.
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Hope
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
20 Aug 19
@TheHorse I long for such things to end!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
I tend to go into fact finding mode when I hear stories like that.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Aug 19
@1hopefulman I think I've grown "used" to it.
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Anne Marie Guyer
@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
25 Nov 15
Sad world news makes me mad. But there are sad movies that I can not help but cry anytime I see and one in particular is the ending of Titanic.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Nov 15
I agree. Sad world news makes me angry. I'm with you on the ending of Titanic.
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Val
@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
15 Nov 15
I'm like you. I'm a goner at sad movies. I hate being in a crowd of dry eyed people when I come out of the theatre.
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Val
@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
15 Nov 15
@TheHorse I prefer to go to the movies on my own, so then I have more time to return to my normal self before having to talk about it.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Aug 19
@valmnz I usually only go to movies when someone drags me there.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I just hope I'm "recovered" enough to talk about it.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471253)
• Switzerland
15 Nov 15
When I heard the news, I was sad, but more than sad angry, no I did not cry, but when I heard that the French people leaving the Stadium were singing "La Marseillaise" I cried, as I cried when this happened in the movie Casablanca.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471253)
• Switzerland
15 Nov 15
@TheHorse I will too and I know that I will cry again.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
@LadyDuck Same with me and The Notebook, Titanic (when the classical music is playing and the woman is reading to her children in "steerage"), and even Lion King ("Remember who you are, Simba").
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
Now I'll have to watch Casablanca again.
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Sherry
@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
15 Nov 15
I am much more stoic than I used to be. When I was young I cried very easily. Now it takes a lot to make me cry.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I wonder why you've gotten MORE stoic, while others have gotten LESS stoic!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
@norcal Tough on the outside can still mean molten on the inside.
Sherry
@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
15 Nov 15
@TheHorse - Well, you can't cry all the time. I guess I just toughened up.
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lmpanddy
@lmpandey (71)
• New Delhi, India
15 Nov 15
It was indeed a very sad day for people of France when more than 130 innocent people lost their life in terrorist attacks in Paris. I was not able to move out of my TV, and I was very angry with the intelligent system failure. However, I didn't cry.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
With attacks like that, I get angry, then I move quickly into information gathering and problem-solving mode.
Catherine
@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
15 Nov 15
I do not watch sad movies, and I do not listen to sad songs. I prefer to walk around feeling good, instead of upset or unsettled, by a song or movie. What happened in Paris is horrific and sad, but, what it made me feel was anger, pure anger.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
I think many of us felt anger after we heard that news.
PaintsOnSlate
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
15 Nov 15
I'm a sucker for a sad song and even worse with a sad movie. I have cried through the best of them. I was angry when it happened in Paris but will admit I'm angrier some people are blaming it on the refugee crisis and are not able to see the difference between the attackers and people running away from terrorism. A cousin on said something about not wanting any more refugees in the US. That is sad.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I'm not in that business, so I don't know how easy or hard it is to discern one fleeing from terrorism versus one using the refugee situation as an excuse to infiltrate.
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crunch
@Ryanskie (256)
• Philippines
15 Nov 15
I'm sad when I'm hearing a bad news especially this current news about Paris attack, we can angry with that because violence will not help you with anything. When it comes to movies, I get affected as well especially when it is realistic enough to happen in real life. But still, we have to be positive in life as always.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Nov 15
I don't think it has to be "realistic" to affect me. As with Lion King, it can symbolically represent things I've experienced.
dorianna
@dorianna (509)
• United States
16 Nov 15
Yes, being deeply emotional, I cry easily at both great joy and sad experiences. When it comes to news, I rarely listen to the media. If someone tells me a sad story, yes, it makes me weepy or a tender story that someone posts on Facebook will bring me to tears. This includes tales of animals as well as stores about people.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
I like animals more than people. For the most part, anyway.
Amal Shah
@Senzokai (4)
• Mumbai, India
15 Nov 15
If a movie I've liked has a sad ending, it tends to stay with me for a while. I tend to think about it for many days and often get a bit sad when I'm hearing songs or music that played during those scenes.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218464)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Aug 19
Yep, the music from Titanic does that to me.