... or do the holidays make you extremely emotional as well? I'm not emotional in a way that picks fights or makes me grumpy. I'm emotional like I want to cry at stupid commercials, touching stories, etc.. more than normal. Here's an example: There's a Cheerios commercial where the grandma is scooting the cereal around on the high chair, talking to the baby about where different ppl live in the country, using the cereal as spots in the country. She tells the baby that they will never be apart and then the baby eats a piece, etc... I'm sure you all have seen it. Heck, I'm feeling all choked up just writing about it! I will tell my hubby about something sweet and you can hear my voice get tight with emotion. I watch my two girls do something kind for the other without provocation and I nearly busrt out into tears!!! Arrrrgh! Help me! lol I'm not normally THIS bad, really...
So, any of you suffer from Holiday Emotions?
I get moody around holiday but that's cause my daddy's not with us and they make me miss him. But I don't tend to cry at least not a lot. My husband on the other had will but not just around holidays. I think some people get over emotional because of the stress.
Thought about a holiday lighting ceremony today while driving. Just briefly thought about it. Just the actual facts that it is going to happen next week. Boom! Tears in my eyes. And we don't even go to it!
I'm worse than Nikki G below--I am not pregnant and I will still cry at anything which tugs too much at the heartstrings.
Not sure if it's the holidays for me, however, or the fact that here in Portland we are now beginning our famous Gray Season. The lack of sunlight makes me a bit moody. Today is a 'nice' day for Portland in November, took a great walk earlier, but cloudy cloudy. I'm pretty sure that's why we are all so hung up on our coffee, here and in Seattle. I think we have more quality time with the coffee bean than we do our friends and family, this season!
Not just holidays. I read books to my son. The other day I was reading him The Brother's Grimm's "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes". I usually read it to him with vocal characterizations, and I got all choked up. He asked me if I was upset because Two Eyes was being treated awful, and he said it was a very bad thing, and then he hugged me and said it would be okay, which made me cry even more.
We watched "The Forbidden Kingdom", and I got choked up and teary eyed at that as well.
Sometimes it's just a situation that makes us feel more deeply than other times, be it holidays, movies, or a good book. For me anyway, it's cathartic, being able to release these emotions in an expressive manner. Holding emotions in, even good ones, can overwhelm a person after a while.
Sometimes I think we hold in all these strong emotions all year, and then during the holidays where we are remembering good will and giving thanks, it all flows out of us in waves, cascading us in a flood of feeling.
Just my 2 cp.
yup i get super sentimental...you're not alone!
I'm pregnant, so I'll cry at anything.
I have to admit that I got a little choked up earlier today when I saw that coffee commercial, I think Folgers, where the college boy comes home for Christmas and gives his little sister a gift, and she gives it back and tells him that him coming home to visit was her gift. I don't usually get too weepy at the holidays but sometimes it just happens!
I'm with Nikki G. (First answer.) I'm pregnant too, lol.
Bring on the emotions! I get super moody, like a month-long session of PMS! It's not all bad, I have moments of warm-and-fuzziness coupled with stress, sadness and gratefulness. Just put me in a blender and hit puree!
Yes. I hate the holidays. They get me anxious and I don't like all the stress and drama.
no. holidays make me happy. i don't stress about anything. i love to shop for people. i don't love to cook but since my husband helps that is done as well. i love christmas morning, christmas eve. i just love this time of the year (minus the cold).
I feel like Lola.......I love these holidays and I enjoy them deeply I do get emotional because of the music and the smell in the environment, because I do not have my parents alive to enjoy all this with them, but I do love Christmas and Thanksgiving.
No, but I get very stressed out and my anxiety really kicks into high gear.
Lol, I was talking to my best friend day explaining to her how emotional I've become since having a child (Who is now 2, so it's not like I JUST had him). She used to make fun of me because I never cried during sad movies. I was telling her how now I'll watch a commercial and burst into tears. Then I was like, "Heck, I'll be watching a comedy, see how happy the characters are, and cry because they are so happy and I am happy that they are happy." Then, as I was saying that, I pictured the scene I was talking about in my head... And started crying because I remembered how happy the characters were and it just made me so happy! God, I'm almost crying now just writing this because I'm picturing that damn scene again!
Thanksgiving has become an emotional one for me, as my grandpa died 2 days before Thanksgiving (in 1994), and in 2001 there was a HUGE fight at our Thanksgiving party, which resulted in one of my aunts walking 5 miles home because she yelled at her brother (our host). That was a tough year--the family business that (at the time) employed 6 of our families was really struggling, and 1 of my uncles had been laid off after they merged the company with a bigger firm. Oy, I still cringe when I think about the words that were said that year, and the look on my aunt's face as she stormed out of the house, into the snow.
But, that Folgers college boy commercial still does make me smile/tear up ;-) "Peter!" "Shh, everyone's asleep." ;-)
My mom loved Christmas. I have been sorting pictures today so, for now, I am kind of weepy.
You certainly aren't the only one who gets emotional or finds themselves crying. I not only cry over the sentimental stuff, but actual have sympathy pains when people are hurt, it doesn't have to be loved ones. I actually get that strange feeling when someone is hurt, even commercials or movies. It's actually getting to be uncomfortable trying to control the compassionate feelings when I see something that is not real. Just wanted to let you know you share these emotions with millions of others.
