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[jetpack_monkey]

Something happened in the last couple of years where I've started tearing up, sniffling, or downright crying at the drop of a hat while watching media. I've always had a soft gushy spot for family moments -- parents reuniting with children, emotionally-distant fathers finally admitting how much their offspring means to them -- but now it seems like a week doesn't go by where I don't at least feel that odd prickly sensation rise around my nose bridge.

Just this weekend, it happened a bunch of times times. I was watching Batman Begins, specifically the scene where Bruce's parents are shot and I just started getting blubbery... then they cut to Jim Gordon talking to Bruce and he reaches out and touches the kid and I just *lost* it.

I had a misty moment in an episode of Fringe where Walter expresses his love for Peter (when Peter's not even in the room).

Then, echan was watching Suits and I was half-attentive and there was a freakin' car commercial where a father drives off-road to share a rainbow with his daughter. I had a few sniffles and maybe a little wetness around the eyes.

I dunno, is there something about heading into your thirties that makes you extra-sensitive to emotional moments or am I just a big gooby softie?

I should probably carry some tissue with me on emergency reserve at Vividcon.

Comments

[jmtorres]

...just a thought perhaps influenced by my life but, is there anything going on with your family?

or even, it could just be as simple as you don't see them as often since you moved to LA, so have longer heartstrings to tug at, as it were?

[jetpack_monkey]

Nothing going on with my family right now. I miss them, but it's not like I couldn't hop on a plane on a whim.

Familial moments like that have always touched me, which is weird. I had a good enough childhood -- I mean, I have issues with my dad, but they sprouted up when I became an adult more or less. Family, conceptually, has never been super important to me either. I have close relationships with my mother and sister because I genuinely think they are awesome human beings whom I enjoy spending time with.

[laura47.livejournal.com]

I got totally worked up watching baby Bruce in Batman begins yesterday. Kids are really getting to me lately. Commercials have always been good at pulling on my heartstrings, they are designed to do that.oy.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Maybe there's an emotional issue for you right now? Who knows, sometimes it can happen. For me after I go through some kind of loss, things start to get me but I've always been fairly easy to cry so it's not usually too noticable.

Hopefully this year's Vividcon is not like last year's Vividcry!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Maybe? I've been generally not as satisfied with my life in LA as I was in Phoenix (which is weird because I love my job here and didn't love it in Phoenix).

But I don't have any specific trauma. *shrugs*

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

That damn rainbow commercial has gotten me at least three times.

As for VVC, given the propensity among vidders for kicking a person right in the feels, extra kleenex are always a good idea...

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

I got a little choked up at a scene in a reality show where a girlfriend says goodbye (temporarily) to her boyfriend at the airport. Cheesy music was playing. The boyfriend had a really dumb hat on. And I was like super wibbly. I think it just happens sometimes. *hug*

[fiction.livejournal.com]

I get misty at most of the moments in Fringe between Walter and Peter. But don't feel bad this is the chick who cried at EASY A! :P