7 Powerful Photos That’ll Smack You Right In The cheeks

Every now and then, the internet conspires against us to interrupt our day to day activites and make us feel far more emotional than we were expecting when we rolled out of bed at 7am with a grumpy expression on our faces.

If you’re yet to experience such an unexpected feeling of emotional assault via the medium of the interwebs, then look no further than the following list. These photos are all guaranteed to give you serious feels, change how you think about the world, and possibly cause you to reassess your life. You have been warned.

1. A nature reserve worker weeps beside a poached rhino

2. A man learns he is the last living veteran of his WWII battle group

3. Billboard for missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman. He was never found

4. A note found tied to a popped balloon

5. A mother listening to her dead son’s heartbeat inside the woman his heart was donated to

6. Patton Oswalt celebrating his Emmy win, just a few months after his wife died from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills

7. A Syrian girl mistakes camera for gun and immediately surrenders by holding her hands in the air