What brings a tear of joy to your eye?

The last thing that brought a tear of joy to my eye was the final scene in the film A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks.

The film is based on the book “A Man Called Ove,” by the Swedish writer Fredrik Backman, which I had listened to on tape.

SPOILER ALERT

In the final scene, Otto has died of natural causes (rather than by suicide, which he had been planning) when his neighbor Marisol finds him. She is heartbroken, but finds a note with his final wishes. He has left his home, car, and money to her and her young family. He signs the note Abuelo (grandfather) Otto.

Aw.

The childless grumpy old man, whose heart had turned to stone after the death of his disabled wife (tragically crippled while pregnant years earlier), had found a family in his final years.

It’s the happy and the sad mixed together that tends to get me. The Bittersweet.