For all you older posters!

[SilenceS]

So, I was trying to get some wisdom. I have been through a lot since age 14 and I am now 28. I lost two brothers tragically in a 4 year span. I was so rock hard then. I didnt cry unless I was by myself and alone. I could watch things and feel nothing. Now, as I get older, things make me tear up. So, my question, do you get more emotional as you get older? Do you grow more of a heart? Or do you just go through so many things that emotions just come out more? I know this will sound soft but The Great big world and Christian Aguillera song "Say Something" video gets to me. The old people in the video and the child just sends goosebumps up and down me. For those who havent seen the video I will post. Tell me the old man saying goodbye to his wife who is dying doesnt spark up some emotion.

[video=youtube;-2U0Ivkn2Ds]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2U0Ivkn2Ds[/video]

 

[airtime143]

 

[X]

I don't cry much - and I see a lot of messed up stuff with work...but -- when people do things to help less-fortunate kids, I tear up. Those "Make-A-Wish" things ESPN does kills me. every. single. time.

 

[Omeletpants]

I don't participate in Cutler threads or middle age meaning of life threads. Everyone knows that.

Thank you

 

[Dogstar]

I don't cry much - and I see a lot of messed up stuff with work...but -- when people do things to help less-fortunate kids, I tear up. Those "Make-A-Wish" things ESPN does kills me. every. single. time.

Animals too... especially this guy's vids

[video=youtube;YJkZXh9v_i4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJkZXh9v_i4[/video]
The minute the tail wags, it's doom for the dry eyes.

 

[SilenceS]

I dont either but when it comes to kids or like love. I do. Maybe because I never thought I have truly loved besides my parents.

 

[SilenceS]

I dont think I could ever cry like him. Those are serious tears.

 

[Crystallas]

When my best friend in the world died, it took me weeks before I showed any emotion. We were both 26 when it happened. Then I just snapped for a few days. I had a two hour conversation with his widow over the phone, and we talked about all kinds of things. If she didn't want to talk, I don't know how else I would have snapped back to reality(I would have, just don't know if I would have done something that I would later regret.) I also had a longtime girlfriend that died in a car accident when I was still in highschool. I didn't speak for two months after that. I was a very extroverted person, everyone was my friend, went to all of the parties and I was in with every crowd. So just ignoring the world for two months was really strange. My friends tried to cheer me up, and I just tuned them out. Talk about crying, I bawled a ton and that's a dangerous thing that leads to certain long-term depression. Thankfully Jordan retired from basketball(the first time). Weird as that may be, that stupid event woke me up, because I didn't want to miss everything that happened around me.

Now I can only get emo for so long before I start to joke it off. My family knows this about me, and know I don't mean to be insensitive. Every funeral is bad, we all cry, and then two hours later I make fun of the person that just died and either get laughs or dirty stare. I think it's from my time in the army, and the fact that I'm the only person left alive from my first squad + all of the other unnecessary things that went down. Bad things happen, and you just learn to find positives, even in the darkest times. None of which is easy to do.

 

[KittiesKorner]

Animals too... especially this guy's vids

[video=youtube;YJkZXh9v_i4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJkZXh9v_i4[/video]
The minute the tail wags, it's doom for the dry eyes.

I can't watch them. I lose it.

 

[SilenceS]

When my best friend in the world died, it took me weeks before I showed any emotion. We were both 26 when it happened. Then I just snapped for a few days. I had a two hour conversation with his widow over the phone, and we talked about all kinds of things. If she didn't want to talk, I don't know how else I would have snapped back to reality(I would have, just don't know if I would have done something that I would later regret.) I also had a longtime girlfriend that died in a car accident when I was still in highschool. I didn't speak for two months after that. I was a very extroverted person, everyone was my friend, went to all of the parties and I was in with every crowd. So just ignoring the world for two months was really strange. My friends tried to cheer me up, and I just tuned them out. Talk about crying, I bawled a ton and that's a dangerous thing that leads to certain long-term depression. Thankfully Jordan retired from basketball(the first time). Weird as that may be, that stupid event woke me up, because I didn't want to miss everything that happened around me.

Now I can only get emo for so long before I start to joke it off. My family knows this about me, and know I don't mean to be insensitive. Every funeral is bad, we all cry, and then two hours later I make fun of the person that just died and either get laughs or dirty stare. I think it's from my time in the army, and the fact that I'm the only person left alive from my first squad + all of the other unnecessary things that went down. Bad things happen, and you just learn to find positives, even in the darkest times. None of which is easy to do.

You never disappoint in your responses. Tip of the cap to you.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I don't cry much - and I see a lot of messed up stuff with work...but -- when people do things to help less-fortunate kids, I tear up. Those "Make-A-Wish" things ESPN does kills me. every. single. time.

Don't watch Real Sports on HBO. Every so often they'll run something that always gets to me. The last one was Jaclyn's Friends. Rather than type the story:

Sorry X....

[video=youtube;_p2mc_nzJ6Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2mc_nzJ6Q[/video]

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Double Post.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

If you wanna cry, watch soldiers coming home surprise videos. It's an instant tear up, like this one.

[video=youtube;u3yjMdWVCHk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3yjMdWVCHk[/video]

 

[JosMin]

I can't listen to the song "Detroit Rock City" without crying. My dad's a huge Kiss fan. Music and sports are the two things that we can just sit and talk about and let a whole day slip by without noticing. Whenever I was driving to the hospital to visit him after he had surgery a few years ago during his fight with cancer, it came on one of the classic rock stations. I got a little emotional so I turned the station to the other classic rock station and literally 30 seconds later, it started playing again. I had to pull over, I couldn't drive for a few minutes.

He's been in remission for nearly three years, but I still can't listen to the song. It's really interesting to think about something so trivial being able to get to you in the deepest sense, especially after being far removed from it.

 

[Monk]

I really didn't cry much if at all until my dad died in 2010. It was so sudden I just had no time to prepare. I talked to him like 2 hours before the medical examiner said he probably died. He was at work and doing fine it seemed. Then my mom called at like 9 pm and said he was gone. When I hung up I let out the biggest wail I have ever been a witness too.

Since then it doesn't take a lot. It's not as bad as when he first passed. I wept at the end of the Miley Cyrus movie last song that my daughter wanted to watch. I had to get up and go to the bathroom I was so broken up.

 

[Hbkrusso]

ive notice as ive gotten older I tend to be a bit more emotional. ive even teared up once inna while when in my twentys I don't think I even cried once

 

[Cerebral]

I definitely feel more emotional now that i'm 28 as opposed to when I was younger. Seeing videos of animal abuse or a commercial of a Soldier coming home to a heroes welcome makes me get teary.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I don't get emotional about deaths of people I don't know (celebrities for instance), but I do about deaths of animals whether I know them or not. I think I might be a sociopath

 

[SilenceS]

I don't get emotional about deaths of people I don't know (celebrities for instance), but I do about deaths of animals whether I know them or not. I think I might be a sociopath

Want to talk about a Sociopath I am dealing with one on another sight lol

 

[LanceStone]

I don't get emotional about deaths of people I don't know (celebrities for instance), but I do about deaths of animals whether I know them or not. I think I might be a sociopath

[video=youtube;1Xg2G_oINqc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg2G_oINqc[/video]