Crying
It's a cold night, probably the night before Christmas. Somewhere, out there, there's a girl, a poor girl, selling matchsticks, to earn enough money to support her own home. She was forced to do this by her father, why I don't know, but she has to.
But she's cold, and nobody wants to buy her matchsticks. She decides to light one up, and right before her eyes, she sees a feast meal. She can even smell it. But just as she's about to reach out, it disappears. She wants more, and lights up another matchstick. She then sees a Christmas tree, full of presents, but again it disappears right when she's about to reach it. She then continues to light up the matches, until she lights up the last one.
There she sees the image of her deceased grandmother, who she loved the most. She then reaches out, and her grandmother too reaches out. Finally she gets lifted off by her grandmother.
Everybody knows how the story ends, the girl dies, but with a smile on her face. It's one of the saddest stories by Hans Christian Andersen ever, and it always makes me cry a little. Even when I heard it countless times before. I think The Little Matchgirl is one of his most beautiful stories ever, and probably fitting for his own life, a tragic life. Perhaps that's why most of his stories are tragic.
So my question to you guys, what makes you cry? What stories, for example, or what songs?
But she's cold, and nobody wants to buy her matchsticks. She decides to light one up, and right before her eyes, she sees a feast meal. She can even smell it. But just as she's about to reach out, it disappears. She wants more, and lights up another matchstick. She then sees a Christmas tree, full of presents, but again it disappears right when she's about to reach it. She then continues to light up the matches, until she lights up the last one.
There she sees the image of her deceased grandmother, who she loved the most. She then reaches out, and her grandmother too reaches out. Finally she gets lifted off by her grandmother.
Everybody knows how the story ends, the girl dies, but with a smile on her face. It's one of the saddest stories by Hans Christian Andersen ever, and it always makes me cry a little. Even when I heard it countless times before. I think The Little Matchgirl is one of his most beautiful stories ever, and probably fitting for his own life, a tragic life. Perhaps that's why most of his stories are tragic.
So my question to you guys, what makes you cry? What stories, for example, or what songs?
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Anyway, Christie plays with you all through the story, right up to the end. The ending is so sad that I did get a bit teary-eyed...
And sometimes I find myself crying while watching the Sergio Leone westerns, because they're so fricking epic beyond belief. I mean I just can NOT believe such amazing movies exist. Someday I'm afraid I'll wake up and find that I dreamed them.
Likewise. I'm generally a very happy person, laugh and smile a lot, and am not given to brooding or moping. However, I do cry quite readily at sad stories - especially things related to parting, death and loss.
Rather appropriately for the season, top of my "cry list" right now is White Wine in the Sun (the Christmas song) by Tim Minchin.
This singer is a fellow Aussie living in London. He normally does clever offbeat comedy music, and this is one of his rare (mostly) serious pieces. It perfectly captures the conflicting emotions involved in living away from the people who love you best. The parts where he sings about family, and particularly the last verse, are pretty much guaranteed to have me crying openly.
Green Fields of France is definitely a cry-worthy song though.
As for movies, City of Angels and Chasing Amy tend to at least get me choked up, if not full-blown sad. (Yes, I'm that guy who openly sheds a tear during chick flicks
But I'll find my self crying at the most trivial things.
Two notable examples; When I was younger, I thought for a good long hour about death.
And when I beat Paper Mario 2. Why did I cry? Because I had left that game on hold for several years. It was beuatiful to see the ending without resorting to Youtube.
Nothing wrong with crying my friend, it's even healthier to cry than be angry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3FsJGCvzfI
Why?
A little back story here. Nikki, now the winner of the fourth edition of Dutch Idols, told in the leader why she picked this musical song. I'm not really sure, but I believe this song was the favorite song of an old music teacher of Nikki, who basically taught her a lot of things about at singing, or at least music, and she dedicated it to her teacher. The kicker? This teacher was deceased for some time at that point.
It was really moving to see her cry at the end of the song.
Also, not really all that tear jerkery, but the song Part Of Your World from the Little Mermaid always almost gives me a tear. Likewise with So Close by Jon McLaughlin for the movie Enchanted and Eyes On Me for the game Final Fantasy VIII as performed by Faye Wong.
Also, when I saw The Little Matchgirl in the Efteling (Dutch theme park), it really brought tears in my eyes, and not in the almost sense.
And the Lord of the Rings movies had several misty-eyed moments... Arwen crying, Pippin singing for Denethor, Annie Lennox singing Into the West... but mostly, Aragorn's line "My friends... you bow to no one." Gets me every time.
Thats not even on the menu at any time of the year here in the UK.
Most beautiful song... gives me chills every time.
Can't remember if I cried for Donna, but I definitely did when
But the two TV episodes that ALWAYS make me cry? Quantum Leap: "MIA", and Futurama: "Jurassic Bark".
I forgot about that... no matter how many times I see that episode, the end montage brings tears to my eyes every single time.
We don't even get it at all! Of course if I ever did visit the the States i'd be sure to order it loudly in a brash accent whilst wearing my Armagh GAA shirt, you get very patriotic when you're away from home I find
And also in Ugly Betty when
Oh and Harry Potter 7. I think that may have been from shock at the final chapter though..
A little girl died? Wow. That's TOTALLY something I haven't heard before.
I was also bawling like a little girl all throughout the movie "Up."
And Bambi's "Mooooooooother" scene always gets me.
Other than that, I don't cry very often. I often mostly just get teary-eyed or depressed without any tears, so I'll have to really think about it.
as a side note, i thought Hans christian anderson was the actor who played Anakin Skywalker in episodes 2/3. Shows how much i know ¬_¬.
I read it. There's just too many stories where little girls die. It's made me... immune to it.
And it's one of the first.
Dating back from 1845.
Seriously, the last thing we need is sarcasm to the point of it almost being cynicism, especially not in a thread where people are willing to open themselves up. Admitting you cry about trivial things, especially as a guy and / or an adult, isn't something you do easily.
Lion King, Land Before Time, I Am Sam, The Notebook...err...lots of embarassing things too -_- Like Titanic, ha.
But I've been delving into alot of Visual Novels at the moment, and they just rip your heart out and squeeze the tears out of it.(Mostly those done by Key, gosh.)
Ahh The Notebook... best tearjerker ever. Not a good date movie! Or possibly an awesome date movie, depending on how much you want to console your sobbing date.
I was in various stages of tears from the part where
Watch this.
NO
NO NO NO NO
You're not going to get me again, this is a very good day, THANK YOU.
Pet stories like those always make me tear up. There was a similar one about a cat in some book. I think it was Chicken Soup for the Pet Owner(?)'s Soul or something like that. I can't remember the exact title, but geez, those were some sad stories. My teacher read some to us in class when I was younger and I was all "D':" right in class.
But in general sad music always gets to me, I've got very suggestible emotions it seems.
Oh, and sad films.
And adverts.
And games.
And stories.
Sure I've forgotten something somewhere.