Seeing people eat makes me cry.

I feel the urge to cry a lot when I see people eat, but not out of any negative emotions. It's that my heart kinda surges with some feeling, the closest I can call it is pity or empathy. It's not pleasant, it makes me feel so helpless. I think I get so emotional because it's something so simple, but also so necessary and makes people so happy. I feel to an extent that eating has something to do with greed, but in this case I almost enjoy watching people indulge in something like that.

I totally agree with most people's comments on here, such as how it exposes the vulnerability of humans. But my heart just sort of gushes with, like, love? Adoration? I have been trying to put it in words for years.

The whole reason I made an account on here was because I Googled why I was crying over my grandmother eating bread. It's definitely not normal, but you're not the only one!

I get that too, not just when people are eating alone but in general and even in video games when characters eat. I see eating as a humbling action, the humility is what makes me sad. It shows me just how fragile humans are. It doesn't make me cry, it makes me ask why am I alive? But it doesn't give me suicidal thoughts.

I agree with the heart felt emotions when watching others eat. For me, I see people as sweet, kind and vulnerable. Even a messy eater is doing something so very basic, something that we all must do if we wish to stay alive. It is an commonality we share with all our fellow human beings.

I remember seeing an Asian girl on a bus, implants in, and eating on the way to work. My heart was broken for her, she appeared so gentle and kind as she ate her breakfast sandwich, quietly and alone on a bus full of people.

I definitely get this as well. I have that thing where the sound of people chewing makes me angry but I still can't bear to ask people to stop so I internalize it. Just the thought of criticising the was they eat makes we feel like crying. I think I've always had this or at least as long as I can remember. Also the thought of someone getting food poisoning makes me so sad. Being punished for eating, especially if it was something they enjoyed. I've been faced with confronting people with bad eating habits and I just couldn't do it.

I am writing back to this because I have currently been crying for two hours straight because I saw my roommate eating. I hate my roommate, and to see someone who I hate , eating is confronting for me. I've been like this for a while, if people confront me while I'm eating it's the worst feeling in the world.
First off, I know I personally associate food with greed. Which essentially is something most people don't want to be: greedy. When you mix the two, it's a large amount of entitlement you've subjected to and it may be unnerving.
My theory on other people is that it portrays vulnerability. Basic survival instinct is to eat, seeing people -especially ones who eat fast or grubby- eat is baring some sort of desperation only shown when people eat. All the complexities of humans evolutionary traits are banished as soon as they got into 'survival mode' and start eating. There is an unexplainable look of desperation I see. I hate it.
I get it when I see strangers, acquaintances or people who I don't like doing it. Same applies when I am eating, I don't like it as I feel vulnerable.
I was physically and emotionally abused as a child, always very fit but always got called overweight. But I significantly remember this anxiety happening soon after my part-time job at McDonald's, a memory that was minute but stayed with me.
I was sitting in the crew room eating lunch as I'd just started my break. My manager came in and said "Stop stuffing your faces and start working" I was honestly mortified. I think you should just think back, really hard, on all the things that could have started this. The mind works in very, very mysterious ways. For someone to say this isn't normal and doesn't have a degree in cognitive function shouldn't really have a say.

you, my friend, are abnmormal.

I've been feeling the same way for years now.
I have never came across others who have this, as well.
Even though it gives me the feeling of crying, I'll watch Mukbang videos because there's something about watching another person indulge in eating that is emotional to me.
I cannot eat after an argument or during one, and I hate being yelled at when it comes to food and I don't like seeing people uncomfortable while eating.
It makes me so emotional and actually cry sometimes.
I still have no idea where this stemmed for myself.

i found this page when searching up is it normal to cry at people eating sandwich’s, anytime i see people acting sandwhiches or with their hands i feel so much sympathy towards them. then reading this page made me cry and i don’t usually cry. All the feeling people are describing is the exact feeling. all my friends thought it was odd. i don’t think it’s normal it’s just nice to know people feel the same way

People eating by themselves has made me sad for as long as I can remember. I associate food with togetherness and feeling good, so when I see someone eating alone, or just a couple people eating by themselves, it is somehow saddening. It would make me happier to see a large group of people laughing and maybe celebrating; depending on my mood. Also, my grandfather has dementia, and they have started pureeing his food. Of course that is no fault of his own, but it makes me too sad to watch, and think that he may never get to experience the crunch of some of his favorite foods. :( But I wouldn't go as far as to say that I cry.

It's unpleasant experience on both ends!

Eating alone is depressing but if its eating in general then get help

Well, when I see and old man or woman eating at a restaurant by themselves, it's pretty depressing. But people eating in general? I don't know... maybe you've associated the sight of people eating with something that depresses you?