Crying

[The Mad Monk]

Songs can make me well up -- oddly enough, not when I'm listening to them so much as when I'm singing them.

[connorkimbro]

yeah, i can cry at some songs too. . . not nearly as many though, and i can't remember the last time. . .

[orange]

i can't even mention the songs that make me cry of I'll start getting misty

[Asmodean]

Some movies make me cry. But I think you have to be an American to cry during Apollo 13 or American History X.

The Bodyguard made me cry. As did Braveheart.

But other than movies, the only thing that makes me cry, is seeing my wife or my son in pain, for whatever reason

Asmodean

[Gatekeeper]

**shrug** I, too, cry sometimes — movies, songs and such can set things off. It's good to cry sometimes ... not only emotionally, but physically as well. For too long, it's been instilled in guys that we're supposed to be macho about everything and suck it up. Well, it doesn't always work that way.

Gatekeeper

[Bereta_Eder]

The most embarassing moment was when I was out with my family at the veranda of a restaurant in a park. I must have been around 20 years old and had recently broken up with my girlfriend. This very melancholic Greek song about lost love etc starts playing through the outdoor speakers and right there without warning I felt so miserable and my eyes watered. I was so embarassed. I was thinking "stop it you idiot!" but I couldn't. My grandfather must have understood what was going on 'cause he started singing a happy song right there out of the blue.
The hardest crying of my life was when he died and at his funeral.

[Sikander]

I'm a sucker for orphans or children who have lost a parent either in real life or in a film. I rarely break down and bawl my eyes out though. My favorite kind of crying is when I get flushed and can feel the blood circulating through my body, and tears form on the outside corners of my eyes. It's like simultaneously going through the process of working through something and feeling the relief. My least favorite is when I'm inconsolably sobbing. It's like a panic attack, and I'm not sure that I will be able to ever stop. Fortunately I rarely do this. The last time was at my mom's memorial service, sitting next to her mother who had alzheimer's disease and wasn't really aware that her daughter had died young.

[Bosh]

Very few movies/books/whatever make me cry with a handful of exceptions like Pianist (and a handful of others from ck's list) and Flowers for Algernon.

But when I was a kid I cried really easy but only when angry. Then people would always misinterpret why I was crying which'd only make me get angrier and made me cry more. I did the 1. Have a kid do something mean to me. 2. Me get pissed off. 3. Start crying. 4. Get teased for crying. 5. Launch myself at him fists swinging no matter how much bigger than me he was. 6. Get the both of us suspended cycle more times than I can count.

[connorkimbro]

oh, i was much much much more sensitive when i was younger than I am now. (much younger) . . . my parents love to tell the story of when my dad yelled at me for something (something very minor like "hey, don't eat that cookie before dinner" or some such thing) . . . and i started bawling, sobbing uncontrollably. . . my dad, who wasn't really angry with me in the first place, started to laugh a little and was like "hey whats wrong?" and i said. . . "You *sob* h-h-h-urt *sob* m-m-m-m-y *sob* feeeeeeeeelinnnnnnnnnggggggggsssssss waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh *sob sob sob*" my parents were laughing hysterically at me, which of course only made it worse. i still remember this, quite vividly, i was only about 5 or so . . .

[Solly]

Fags

[Pekka]

I don't cry. I'm STRONG.

[Solly]

No..fags for watching movies like that.

[Pekka]

I wasn't responsing to that. Just saying I don't cry and that I'm strong. Chicks have emotional swings. Men are STEEL.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Fags

Hey look everyone -- PA wants to show his disrespect for gays and he thinks it makes him look cool.





Anyway, I broke down in front of everyone at my dad's wake -- and of course, I had my emotional breakdown while in Ecuador due to another crisis.

[Pekka]

MrFun, funerals don't count. Men can cry at funerals if it is someone close.

Other than that, men are STEEL and don't cry. If they have negative emotions, they will release it in anger and direct it to someone close who might deserve it and is asking for it.