I am becoming soft?

[The Lurker Below]

So, do the movies or the game(s) pull stings that resonate with my experience, do they bring to the surface submerged and supressed feeling (i.e. in We were Soldiers, the moment I feel the most is the morning when they go to the buses, early in the morning, in this fogy night that hesitates to become a day), or I just become soft?

I think there must be something to this. Memories triggering reactions in the brain. I recall a bad tornado movie causing the tears to flow uncontrollably, and the closest I had been to a tornado was at age 8, while I was in the basement and our roof got torn off. I did not cry at age 8, but 20 years later the memory of that stupid event got the better of me. We are soft, and squishy, but it's ok. It confirms we're human.

[Kagemusha]

By your definition.I have always been a softie. I have always had a quick emotional reactions, no matter what emotion at hand. I can hide my emotions to some extent, some feelings better then other, but older i get, less i care to do so. The last thing i want is to turn into an emotionless brick. In such case i just might as well be dead.

[HopAlongBunny]

It's not unusual.
Since I hit 50 and over, many things make me weep that I would have ignored.
No idea why, its just the new normal for me.

[Fisherking]

As a long time solider and leader, shedding a tear does not make you weak.

It depends on what makes you cry.

The things that made me chock up were admiration for the deeds of others, pride in spirit and tradition, and moving tributes. I have also cried for joy a time or two.

Injustice and praying on the weak make me boil with anger. Very strong emotions can do different things to different people. It is how you handle them and what you do with those feelings that matters.

I don’t know that being older does it. Maybe it is just being more in touch with your own emotions has the effect.

[HopAlongBunny]

No it doesn't make you weak, but it does make you different from what you were before.
I suspect (with no definitive proof) it is more biological/chemical than anything else, and is nothing new
Male-menopause? for least researched "thing" ever?

[rajpoot]

Emotional reaction to anything depends on how heavily one is invested in that thing. I guess it is a credit to the movie and to Bioware that their work managed to get you engrossed enough to elicit such a strong reaction from you.

[HopAlongBunny]

Take refuge in the apparent fact that we are the weaker sex (at least conforming to one measure of robustness)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...he-weaker-sex/