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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 18, 2022

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What recently gave you emotional tears? (sublimation)

Seconding 5434a at not understanding the sublimation bit, but a couple of weeks ago I was driving to work in the morning alone on a dark country road listening to '100 Years' by Five for Fighting (2003) and some flood gate just unlatched in my brain and I spent the remaining 15 minutes of my commute just absolutely emphatically sobbing, laughing, profoundly sad and terribly grateful to be alive, struck by the absurdity of the experience.

This was I think the third time this 19 year old #28 US Billboard Hot 100 Single soft rock ballad has flipped that exact switch for me while driving alone, over the course of the last probably 6 months. Always catches me on normal ass days.

I don't understand the relation to sublimation so I'll just give you the last two times I can remember shedding tears that weren't due to cutting onions.

-The one line comment on /r/4chan "foot fags unite and take over" hit me with enough mounting waves of laughter to tip me over the edge.

-For something more sombre, watching the group stage of the world cup reminded me of the Danish player basically dropping dead on the pitch last year at the Euros. Awful.