“There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.”

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BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS THAT MAKE YOU CRY
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I think we have all experienced a few of those rare moments in our lives that have been so utterly beautiful that they have brought you to tears.

At least, I like to think so, anyway.

I could digress into a long rant speculating on the human condition, but that is not what anyone wants to read.

It has always been my opinion that we would rather cry than read.

Or do both at the same time.

Tears on a page, my friend.

That is definitely where the party's at.

Almost any moment can do it.

A moment that can cause such a strong emotion that you cry or at least bring the feeling of tears behind your eyes and tightness in your throat.

It is those moments you that make you stop for a minute, stop from rushing to work or home or the shop or the bank, you stop and you look around you, and you forget that your bills are late, that you have lost most of your dreams, that you have not had a good night's sleep in years.

You forget all of that and you stop and you just see something, anything.

The way a 2-year-old girl grabs her father's hand, huge and strong in her tiny palm and holds onto it tightly because she knows he is there to protect her, and she trusts him completely.

The kind of trust she will only have for a few more years yet, and as the harshness of the world gets to her she will lose that trust and she will stop grabbing for her Daddy's hand and she will enclose herself within walls that were never meant to really be there.

But it is okay, because right then and there she does trust him and she holds his hand and you can see it in her big brown eyes.

Or that couple that walks down the street, the couple you would normally make faces at and vomiting sounds because they are so disgustingly in love.

But at that moment it isn't disgusting.

They see nothing but each other.

You can see it in their touch, in their glances, in their shy kind of laughs, where every look and touch still means something.

The way your hand looks when you really look at it, every curve and line.

The way your palm is always lighter than the rest of your skin and softer.

How the lines are getting deeper and more defined with age.

Just watching your hands move, fluidly and natural, or wave through the air slowly.

The moment when you realize just how many people whose lives you have touched with those hands.

The way she closes her eyes when listening to music, inclining her head ever so slightly with the lights off and the candles burning.

The music is playing, and she can feel every beat pulse through her body.

When the music slows down her breathing follows, when it speeds up she can feel it in her chest and she holds her eyes tightly together and nothing but the music can be thought or heard.

When I am crying and it is not because my heart was broken again or because I failed another of life’s challenges.

Crying because despite the fucked up crap in the world there are moments when it doesn't even matter because you realize there is also so much beauty.

It touches you and you can feel it and you are connected to something and it is an urgent kind of feeling within you that turns into a calm acceptance.

It just hits you now and then, if you stop and look around, or stop and close your eyes and just sit still.

It doesn't matter, look up at a friend and really look, really listen, really touch.

It makes you cry.

What beautiful moments make you cry?