How far can you make it without crying a happy cry?

[SoTxBob]

and yet those reading are supposed to read your mind and know it was part of a bit of Georges? Without context of an on stage humor bit, its apples n oranges. :dontknow:

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I didn't care if they got or knew the reference, I only brought it up when you mentioned it reeks of how young I am. But I'm over it and will move on so others can share their insight. There were some good stories, others reaching a bit far to make their stories seem predestined.

 

[LadyLuna]

18 & 19 brought the water up, but nothing dripped yet...

Having gone through a rocky adoption myself, anything family is really felt.

 

[LadyLuna]

(Sorry for the double-post, but I think it's too late to edit)

The ones that didn't make me cry, mostly made me smile.

I cried, or almost-cried, on the following:
26, 40, 64, 79, 80, 97, 98

 

[Diana Blake]

I was doing really well but #68 got me...I'm a little embarrassed by how blubbery that one made me.

 

[Rose]

None of them made me cry but I really appreciated #52 because of something similar happening to me. I've fallen down the stairs twice since moving into my own apartment, both times Sadie was standing below me on the steps and was able to 'catch' me before I got hurt. Except for a couple bruises, she was fine too. Yay for happy pet stories.

 

[BlueViolet]

I absolutely loved #17 and and #52, but at the same time #52 pisses me off so badly.

Today, I watched in horror through the kitchen window as my 2-year-old slipped and fell head first into the pool. But before I could get to her, our Labrador Retriever, Rex, jumped in after her, grabbed her by her shirt collar and pulled her to the shallow steps where she could stand. MMT

Why the hell did she have her 2-year-old outside near a pool when she was inside in the kitchen? I don't care if she could "keep an eye" on her from the window, seems like the dog has a hell of a lot more common sense than that idiotic parent. Obviously what could have happened happened and thank god the dog was able to save her.

 

[AllisonWilder]

I absolutely loved #17 and and #52, but at the same time #52 pisses me off so badly.

Today, I watched in horror through the kitchen window as my 2-year-old slipped and fell head first into the pool. But before I could get to her, our Labrador Retriever, Rex, jumped in after her, grabbed her by her shirt collar and pulled her to the shallow steps where she could stand. MMT

Why the hell did she have her 2-year-old outside near a pool when she was inside in the kitchen? I don't care if she could "keep an eye" on her from the window, seems like the dog has a hell of a lot more common sense than that idiotic parent. Obviously what could have happened happened and thank god the dog was able to save her.

Kids are freakin' sneaky as hell at that age. It's possible that her daughter opened the door and went out without making a sound. Mine does it all the time so I ended up having to put a latch near the top of the door to keep him from falling down the porch steps.

 

[BlueViolet]

I absolutely loved #17 and and #52, but at the same time #52 pisses me off so badly.

Today, I watched in horror through the kitchen window as my 2-year-old slipped and fell head first into the pool. But before I could get to her, our Labrador Retriever, Rex, jumped in after her, grabbed her by her shirt collar and pulled her to the shallow steps where she could stand. MMT

Why the hell did she have her 2-year-old outside near a pool when she was inside in the kitchen? I don't care if she could "keep an eye" on her from the window, seems like the dog has a hell of a lot more common sense than that idiotic parent. Obviously what could have happened happened and thank god the dog was able to save her.

Kids are freakin' sneaky as hell at that age. It's possible that her daughter opened the door and went out without making a sound. Mine does it all the time so I ended up having to put a latch near the top of the door to keep him from falling down the porch steps.

Understandably, kids are extremely sneaky, but at the same time there are plenty of preventative measures especially if you know there is a pool in the backyard. I'd be putting up childproof door handle covers by the time they are walking and bells on all my doors even if there isn't a pool because the thought of my child sneaking off out a door where there are cars or bodies of water would terrify me. Kids are sneaky and get into everything, especially at that age, so I wouldn't feel comfortable taking my eyes off of them even for a split second at that age if there aren't anyone else around keeping an eye on them after living with a toddler and being a nanny for a 1-year-old and 3-year-old seeing what they can get themselves into.

 

[AllisonWilder]

I absolutely loved #17 and and #52, but at the same time #52 pisses me off so badly.

Today, I watched in horror through the kitchen window as my 2-year-old slipped and fell head first into the pool. But before I could get to her, our Labrador Retriever, Rex, jumped in after her, grabbed her by her shirt collar and pulled her to the shallow steps where she could stand. MMT

Why the hell did she have her 2-year-old outside near a pool when she was inside in the kitchen? I don't care if she could "keep an eye" on her from the window, seems like the dog has a hell of a lot more common sense than that idiotic parent. Obviously what could have happened happened and thank god the dog was able to save her.

Kids are freakin' sneaky as hell at that age. It's possible that her daughter opened the door and went out without making a sound. Mine does it all the time so I ended up having to put a latch near the top of the door to keep him from falling down the porch steps.

Understandably, kids are extremely sneaky, but at the same time there are plenty of preventative measures especially if you know there is a pool in the backyard. I'd be putting up childproof door handle covers by the time they are walking and bells on all my doors even if there isn't a pool because the thought of my child sneaking off out a door where there are cars or bodies of water would terrify me. Kids are sneaky and get into everything, especially at that age, so I wouldn't feel comfortable taking my eyes off of them even for a split second at that age if there aren't anyone else around keeping an eye on them after living with a toddler and being a nanny for a 1-year-old and 3-year-old seeing what they can get themselves into.

You make a good point. I take my eyes off my kid all the time, leave him alone in a room for a few minutes, but then again I don't happen to have a pool in my living room and once I realized he could open doors I fixed the problem with a latch. Hopefully this served as a wake up call for the mommy in question.

 

[camstory]

Today I decided to take $100 a month and send it directly to a Cam Model friend who I have known for over a year. She has a young boy, and has been struggling lately. This is the second $100 allotment I have decided to cut from my monthly $250-300 budgeted MFC play money. The other $100 is going to a HS friend. I attended her daughter's funeral three years ago after she had been killed by her BF who committed suicide by cop two day's later. My HS friend (Lynann) now cares for her 6 year old granddaughter. Lynann let me stay on her couch for about a month when her daughter (Sarah) was about 6. I last saw Sarah when she was 10 or 11, and already such a neat person. The little bit of help I can supply, is only a little bit. Smaller yet is the tiny sacrifice I make, it will do me no harm to spend less time at MFC or to know I do not contribute as much to Leo's coffers. In fact there is no sacrifice, but rather a reward in how it makes me feel. Hearing that Lynann lost her job through a mutual friend is what prompted me to reallocate the first $100 about two weeks ago. This post is what caused me to commit to the idea of helping my Model friend, - thanks mynameisbob.

Sarah Morgan was 26 years old when killed and her body set on fire inside her apartment.

I vividly remember a water fight that Sarah and I got into one summer long ago. It started with balloons and progressed to buckets, and then with Sarah sneaking up the back steps and turning the hose on me in the kitchen. It ended with Lynann screaming at both of us. At Sarah for spraying the hose inside, and at me for being such a God damed kid.

Admittedly this post wreaks of, "look at me", but that is not my objective. When I decided to start sending Lynann something on a regular basis, I had wanted to post about it but did not know where to do that, or how to say it so it didn't sound so much like I might dislocate my shoulder patting myself on the back. I wanted to post about it because I thought if I could use a little of my fun money in a way in which it had a greater impact to do some good, that maybe there would be others who might think to do the same.

So yea, I guess I am saying look at me, but not because I'm some great guy. I'm saying look at me, a drug addict, with a bit of a criminal history, and more definitely not great things in my past than I like to think about - I'm saying look at me in spite of being anything but a great guy, I am finding a way to make a difference, I think. I suppose I have much more reason to work to tare the scales of righteousness than others here. I also don't want to suggest that anyone needs to do more, but only that we all need to do more.

 

[mynameisbob84]

Well played, sir. Well played

 

[loveyougipsy]

I guess i'm just a cold hearted-barsteward when it comes to people i don't know.

As for kids, my 3 1/2 yr old now takes the bulbs out the lamps, was over 12 months ago he worked out which key he needed to get out the front/back door and how to use it, both to get out and lock me out. I'm afraid I have little sympathy for anyone who under-estimates their kids.

Unexpectedly i find watching many pixar movies with my son makes my all drippy and wet. Also at times I couldn't see to read Steve Jobs biography, which surprised me even more.

 

[ConnerJay]

Ehhh, no happy tears here. I have no soul.

 

[Just Me]

I never make it past the first one :crybaby:

Maybe for the soulless ones this might be more of a challenge :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM&feature=bf_prev&list=PL9BD5E9DCFC492580

How far can you make it with videos? I thought maybe I had seen this here before but could not find a thread after a brief search. My apologies if it has been posted before.

 

[Shaun__]

I never make it past the first one :crybaby:

Maybe for the soulless ones this might be more of a challenge :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM&feature=bf_prev&list=PL9BD5E9DCFC492580

How far can you make it with videos? I thought maybe I had seen this here before but could not find a thread after a brief search. My apologies if it has been posted before.

I did not make it past the first video, and decided not to watch the rest. His story was very moving and he expressed his pain in a devastatingly honest fashion. The little one paragraph blurbs could never have the impact of this for me.

 

[SoTxBob]

I never make it past the first one :crybaby:

Maybe for the soulless ones this might be more of a challenge :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM&feature=bf_prev&list=PL9BD5E9DCFC492580

How far can you make it with videos? I thought maybe I had seen this here before but could not find a thread after a brief search. My apologies if it has been posted before.

I did not make it past the first video, and decided not to watch the rest. His story was very moving and he expressed his pain in a devastatingly honest fashion. The little one paragraph blurbs could never have the impact of this for me.

I got 4 into the 19..... 'Last minutes with Oden' broke the wall...

http://youtu.be/EOAcRKZxjy4

 

[loveyougipsy]

I never make it past the first one :crybaby:

Maybe for the soulless ones this might be more of a challenge :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM&feature=bf_prev&list=PL9BD5E9DCFC492580

How far can you make it with videos? I thought maybe I had seen this here before but could not find a thread after a brief search. My apologies if it has been posted before.

I did not make it past the first video, and decided not to watch the rest. His story was very moving and he expressed his pain in a devastatingly honest fashion. The little one paragraph blurbs could never have the impact of this for me.

I'm still in the heartless, soulless club as far as strangers go. For people in my world that I care about I will do everything I possibly can when they need it. For everyone else, they're just strangers with problems.

I'm not trying to sound cruel and I can understand the pain and anger, but they are clips and stories from people outside of my world who I don't know or care about. Life has good times and bad times, that's the real world. For everyone having a bad time, there will be someone else somewhere in a worse situation.
On the other hand if the stories were being told by someone I know and care about I'd have been a complete mess.

As for the animal videos, they're just animals being animals. Projecting our emotions onto their lives and actions is what makes it heartbreaking, joyful, cruel etc. Is it cruel that crocs/gators drown their prey? That a spider poisons a struggling fly caught in a web? That penguins push each other off the ledge to see if there is something in the water that will eat them?

I find things like the public out pouring of sadness and days of mourning by people when Princess Diana, Michael Jackson (substitute other famous person) died the most bizarre and alien thing on the planet. People were in tears on television about someone they didn't know at all apart from what they'd been told by the media. I just don't understand it.

Maybe I'm just too pragmatic about life, maybe I've just told too much about myself :lol:

Something that still kills me is the goodbye at the end of Armageddon. I'm sure the background music plays a part and that I have a son and know what I'd do for him and to protect him. I definitely react more emotionally to music than stories. When the following first came out they killed me, now they just make me sad.

REM - Everybody Hurts: http://youtu.be/pudOFG5X6uA
Sinead - Nothing Compares 2 U: http://youtu.be/iUiTQvT0W_0

 

[KayleePond]

77 was the first to get me feeling even close but that's it! I love animals and for some reason stories about them get me more emotional. Great stories, thanks for sharing!

 

[camstory]

I never make it past the first one :crybaby:

Maybe for the soulless ones this might be more of a challenge :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBJ1X33rXM&feature=bf_prev&list=PL9BD5E9DCFC492580

How far can you make it with videos? I thought maybe I had seen this here before but could not find a thread after a brief search. My apologies if it has been posted before.

I did not make it past the first video, and decided not to watch the rest. His story was very moving and he expressed his pain in a devastatingly honest fashion. The little one paragraph blurbs could never have the impact of this for me.

I'm still in the heartless, soulless club as far as strangers go. For people in my world that I care about I will do everything I possibly can when they need it. For everyone else, they're just strangers with problems.

I'm not trying to sound cruel and I can understand the pain and anger, but they are clips and stories from people outside of my world who I don't know or care about. Life has good times and bad times, that's the real world. For everyone having a bad time, there will be someone else somewhere in a worse situation.
On the other hand if the stories were being told by someone I know and care about I'd have been a complete mess.

As for the animal videos, they're just animals being animals. Projecting our emotions onto their lives and actions is what makes it heartbreaking, joyful, cruel etc. Is it cruel that crocs/gators drown their prey? That a spider poisons a struggling fly caught in a web? That penguins push each other off the ledge to see if there is something in the water that will eat them?

I find things like the public out pouring of sadness and days of mourning by people when Princess Diana, Michael Jackson (substitute other famous person) died the most bizarre and alien thing on the planet. People were in tears on television about someone they didn't know at all apart from what they'd been told by the media. I just don't understand it.

Maybe I'm just too pragmatic about life, maybe I've just told too much about myself :lol:

Something that still kills me is the goodbye at the end of Armageddon. I'm sure the background music plays a part and that I have a son and know what I'd do for him and to protect him. I definitely react more emotionally to music than stories. When the following first came out they killed me, now they just make me sad.

REM - Everybody Hurts: http://youtu.be/pudOFG5X6uA
Sinead - Nothing Compares 2 U: http://youtu.be/iUiTQvT0W_0

Oh my, I have so much to say about this, ( I will do my best to restrain Vic).

First, and this is not a criticism, I don't understand the ability to be so completely detached from strangers. I understand the logic of it, just not how someone can careless about any other living thing unless they have made some personal connection with it/them. To do so seems to reduce all life, other than that we feel we know at some personal level, to the status of a rock. And to listen to what sounds like pride in that, I would say not even a shiny rock, but a dull one or dirtclod.

As far as projecting emotions, is that not exactly what empathy is? Wether or not we know personally that with which we empathize, we none the less feel what our emotions are caused to be by witnessing their plight. When we see an animal suffering in pain and feel badly, it is not because we feel the actual pain, but because we know pain and feel badly that someone we care for is experiencing it. I don't see any difference when it is a human person, or a dog person, or cat person, or horse person.

Sometime with me the difference is I feel worse for the animal people b/c their pain is innocent, or with out the pain relief that reason can provide. A dog that is hit by a car has no understanding why it has caused him such pain or what he has done wrong to deserve it. Whereas, a human person laying in the hospital after being in a car wreck knows, one, that others are caring for him and trying to take the pain away, and, two, that he did nothing wrong, or what he did wrong was to get into a car with a drunk or whatever. Ether way he has reason why he is in pain, that the dog has no concept of why, - he may know that cars hurt but not why the car has hurt him.

To say we should not feel badly about an animal's pain, is to say we don't care that they are in pain, and therefore do not empathize with them, - wether you call that projecting our emotions or something else.

As far as the great grief felt by so many when a celebrity dies, I to am surprised often at first, but that is only b/c I was not a fan. I think your assertion that we can not know someone that we have only ever experanced through media, is just wrong. We here only ever experience each other through a media, but I feel I know some quite well. Granted our interactions are two-way, but we can know celebrates beyond just what we are told of them. Most celebrates do at least occasional personal interviews, or talkshow appearances. Ofcourse they almost all project an image of a dandee swell person, but we can perhaps know them best when we combine these images with what others who know them personally have to say, and also their public actions. In this, - their public actions we can perhaps know them as well as our next door neighbor or close friend, b/c of the constant scrutiny they endure.

The example of M.J. is a good one to use for my next point. That being, we do not have to know the person so well, if we have a great love/respect of their work, craft, art, or philanthropy. I did not personally know Paul Newman, but was very sad when he died, because I felt I knew him a little as a person and respected what he had done while alive.

I think we can know celebrates somewhat to spite all the layers of makeup. And to some extant how well can we know anyone, when we are all somesort of projections of ourselves. I still struggle getting to know who I am well.

I do not nesaceraly think your attitude is wrong, (tho i guess fundamental i must), but I don't understand it from my non-logical human POV. I think you might eventually be happier about the world if you find a way to care about strangers. You have it in you, the fact that you are moved by music is evidence of that.

 

[loveyougipsy]

Camstory, there's no need to be restrained.

I'm sorry if you felt it sounded like I was posting with pride, I wasn't. It was just simple honesty about myself.
I'm very aware I have two strong sides to me, my logical, analytical, introvert side and my emotional side, and have a reasonable understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of them. Sometimes they're in perfect balance, sometimes one overwhelms the other completely, most of the time they work together.

I can worry and agonise for days and sometimes weeks over how a decision I need to make will effect the people around me. Once I reach the point where I can make the decision then all the worrying and agonising just stops.
There are times I'm so worried or upset about what's happening to friends and family I can go to work, but do nothing all day because I am unable to concentrate at all, certainly don't want to speak to anyone and just want to know that everyone is ok/going to be ok.
My logical side is of most benefit at work. I have to look at best and worst case and find solutions to cover both. We question and challenge each others decisions, not because we think they're wrong, but to see if we can find better ways of doing things.
I can turn into a perfectionist at work at times and can unconsciously shut out all distractions to the point where I can't even tell you who was in the room, what anyone said or what music was playing. My friends at work will knock me out of it when they need to, but also understand at times being able to concentrate with no distractions is needed.
I can't explain how or why, and these are extreme examples, but it's just the way I am.

With your example of the dog being knocked down, my reaction would be to do what I could to help the dog. I wouldn't stop and go oh god that's terrible, did you see that? or feel sad. The dog needs whatever help I could give now until someone qualified and able to help turns up. If the driver was irresponsible, speeding, on a cell, drinking coffee, turning round to someone else in the car, putting on makeup etc. I'd be livid with the driver.
If on the other hand it had been videos of wild animals (snow leopards, elephants, bears, tigers, dolphins, sharks etc) being maimed, wounded by people that would make me sad. Someone choosing to go into their lands and harm them, whether for sport, 'medicine', or whatever excuse they use to justify it is so, so wrong.
Maybe the difference is one is 'domesticated' and we bring them into our environment and try to get them to adjust to us in places where accidents happen, the others are in their own environment and we deliberately seek to harm them.

I think the loss of people like Brandon Lee, Douglas Adams, Philip K Dick, Steve Jobs is a great shame and devastating for their families, but I couldn't say I knew them at all or feel sad about it. It would be great to read a new Douglas Adams book, see which industry Steve Jobs changes next, but it's not going to happen.

For me the interaction of chat, forums, texts, video makes a huge difference vs the one/two way publicity company managed streams. It lets you get to know people and I find for myself the Internet can allow more open conversations with people I don't or hardly know. Sometimes that leads to great friends, others it leads to finding someone is a bit too strange or weird to want to know them.

In real life people think I'm cold and un-approachable, my friends think the opposite and on the internet nobody believes I'm shy.

Sorry this went off-topic

 

[LadyLuna]

Camstory, there's no need to be restrained.

Considering how much Camstory wrote this time when he was restrained... well, he probably would've needed two posts to say everything if he didn't make the attempt to be concise, due to the word-count limit on posts.

*hugs Camstory* I think that was one of the most coherent posts I've read from you. Congrats!

 

[SweepTheLeg]

While I can share empathy for strangers and the ordeals, struggles, tragedies they go through- my reactions to them are far different than if they were close loved ones. I mean, if I shared the same feelings for strangers as I do loved ones every time tragedy struck- I'd probably feel so depressed I wouldn't even want to leave my room.