when do feel most alive?

[kiten69]

I feel alive when I truly live.

Well said...

for me i feel most alive when...

~talking with a good friend
~swinging in the rain
~watching my kids laugh
~helping someone else
~making someone smile
~when i visit my grandmothers grave...

to name a few...

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Sensual experiences: The smell of ylang ylang. Seeing vibrant colours in nature - blue skies, white clouds, purple and yellow flowers, all the different hues of green. Stroking the velvet fur of a kitten. Tasting warm apple pie. Hearing Carmina Burana.

When I dance . . . I can give in to the music, and let my spirit sore, give in with abandonment. No inhibitions. Nothing matters, except the beat of the music, and my body.

The moment before orgasm when nothing else matters except ecstasy.

When I practice yoga and I achieve harmony and balance.

When I feel my baby moving.

When i am still and quiet and allow myself to hear and be open to the universe and its secrets. Perhaps sitting under an age old tree, grass beneath me, a tiny insect crawling over my arm, the sun shining through the leaves of the tree and warming my back. Or being in the presence of a very old building, and touching it, wondering who had been there before me.

My daughter, in any shape or form.

Laughing with my Love and knowing that within our silliness there is so much more.

Sharing intimate bonds with people why defy the title of friend/ family/ lover.

When I cry. When I feel the sadness and the pain of the world. When I have made a difference by giving of myself.

 

[rawr_rae]

Sensual experiences: The smell of ylang ylang. Seeing vibrant colours in nature - blue skies, white clouds, purple and yellow flowers, all the different hues of green. Stroking the velvet fur of a kitten. Tasting warm apple pie. Hearing Carmina Burana.

When I dance . . . I can give in to the music, and let my spirit sore, give in with abandonment. No inhibitions. Nothing matters, except the beat of the music, and my body.

The moment before orgasm when nothing else matters except ecstasy.

When I practice yoga and I achieve harmony and balance.

When I feel my baby moving.

When i am still and quiet and allow myself to hear and be open to the universe and its secrets. Perhaps sitting under an age old tree, grass beneath me, a tiny insect crawling over my arm, the sun shining through the leaves of the tree and warming my back. Or being in the presence of a very old building, and touching it, wondering who had been there before me.

My daughter, in any shape or form.

Laughing with my Love and knowing that within our silliness there is so much more.

Sharing intimate bonds with people why defy the title of friend/ family/ lover.

When I cry. When I feel the sadness and the pain of the world. When I have made a difference by giving of myself.

how beautiful! you must live a wonderful life. wishin' ya well.

-Rae

 

[tolyk]

I feel most alive when I'm in love.. followed closely by whenever I have a camera in my hands

 

[McKenna]

My dog feels most alive whenever there's a ball he can chase in the vicinity.

Or when he can stick his head out the car window and smell the breeze.

Or when, occasionally, I let him up on the bed for a nap.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Or when, occasionally, I let him up on the bed for a nap.

I think most people will feel alive when in that, erm . . position

 

[McKenna]

I think most people will feel alive when in that, erm . . position

 

[Trinique_Fire]

i feel alive.....

at the park
with close buddies
dancing
singing
laughing
reading
writing
dressing up

 

[SeaCat]

Oh what a question, it makes one think.

I am alive, there is no doubt about that. I am alive despite many injuries and the efforts of others.

I feel that feeling most though when I am Diving, drifting weightless through the waters. I am one of the denizens, I belong. I feel this way when I am in the woods, making my way through the tangle of branches and leaves. I feel it when I slip up close to an animal, one that doesn't know I'm there.

I feel that way when everything around me turns to shit. When I'm working on a patient and the blood is flowing, when the people around us are screaming and shouting and my partner is freaking out. I'm filthy, the adrenilin is pumping and I have someones life in my hands. That's when I feel alive, life is so special, so meaningful.

Most of all though, I feel alive when my wife comes up and gives me that little smile of hers. That smile that tells me she loves me.

Cat

 

[cloudy]

I feel most alive when it's cool outside and the bedroom window is open, and just before I fall asleep, right in that pivotal moment....I feel his warmth up against my back, and the weight of his leg thrown over mine.

Then I can smile, and continue the slide into oblivion.

 

[rawr_rae]

Oh what a question, it makes one think.

I am alive, there is no doubt about that. I am alive despite many injuries and the efforts of others.

I feel that feeling most though when I am Diving, drifting weightless through the waters. I am one of the denizens, I belong. I feel this way when I am in the woods, making my way through the tangle of branches and leaves. I feel it when I slip up close to an animal, one that doesn't know I'm there.

I feel that way when everything around me turns to shit. When I'm working on a patient and the blood is flowing, when the people around us are screaming and shouting and my partner is freaking out. I'm filthy, the adrenilin is pumping and I have someones life in my hands. That's when I feel alive, life is so special, so meaningful.

Most of all though, I feel alive when my wife comes up and gives me that little smile of hers. That smile that tells me she loves me.

Cat

Are you a surgeon? I'm a Pre-Med student right now, and I'm not sure if I want to go all the way. I'm having strong reconsiderations. But what you just said is so powerful and inspirational, it makes me want to go all the way and do it. I really love helping people, and when you're the medical field, you are helping people day in and day out. Hmmm....thanks Cat.

 

[SeaCat]

Are you a surgeon? I'm a Pre-Med student right now, and I'm not sure if I want to go all the way. I'm having strong reconsiderations. But what you just said is so powerful and inspirational, it makes me want to go all the way and do it. I really love helping people, and when you're the medical field, you are helping people day in and day out. Hmmm....thanks Cat.

Me a Surgeon? Oh hell no. In this day and age, with the Lawyers circling like sharks I wouldn't be an M.D. for anything.

No Rawr, I am merely the lowliest of the low. A C.N.A. I am at the bottom of the pecking order of nursing.

Unfortunatel;y for myself and some others I have a bit more training and knowledge than most C.N.A.'s. I have been a liscensed Psych Tech. I have been an E.M.T. and I have been trained by the government on how to react to injuries in the field. I love emergency medicine.

My wife and I will both be returning to school soon, most likely within the next year, to get our R.N.'s. (She for Pediatrics and me for, you guessed it. Emergency Medicine or Trauma.)

To get into medicine you have to want to get into it for the right reasons. If you are getting into it to make some money, or to be a hero then it isn't the right field. If however you are going into for some reason like wanting to help others, then you will be in it for life.

Cat

 

[rawr_rae]

Me a Surgeon? Oh hell no. In this day and age, with the Lawyers circling like sharks I wouldn't be an M.D. for anything.

No Rawr, I am merely the lowliest of the low. A C.N.A. I am at the bottom of the pecking order of nursing.

Unfortunatel;y for myself and some others I have a bit more training and knowledge than most C.N.A.'s. I have been a liscensed Psych Tech. I have been an E.M.T. and I have been trained by the government on how to react to injuries in the field. I love emergency medicine.

My wife and I will both be returning to school soon, most likely within the next year, to get our R.N.'s. (She for Pediatrics and me for, you guessed it. Emergency Medicine or Trauma.)

To get into medicine you have to want to get into it for the right reasons. If you are getting into it to make some money, or to be a hero then it isn't the right field. If however you are going into for some reason like wanting to help others, then you will be in it for life.

Cat

Wow. That's very admirable. My sis (Lucky) is in training to become a nurse, and she's almost through. I look up to her because I've seen how hard she's worked. Nurses and EMT's are getting to the point where they know just as much as doctors do. I respect and admire any one in the medical field, regardless of whether they have an M.D. slapped after their name.

Well, you named the exact reason why I want to get into the med field. Simply, just to help people. If I can accomplish that in my life, then I will die happy. Still unsure though, I have so many options open right now, and that is precious. We'll see....

I wish you and your wife so much luck going back to school. I'm sure ya'll will do splendidly.

-Rae

 

[L_homme]

When do you feel most alive?

Do you take these moments for granted?

When, after something strenuous or stressful, I'm still breathing. When someone or something makes me smile. When the air around me is clean and fresh. When I realise it's not all about money. When love takes me over.

I try not to take things for granted. If I did, I'd probably be permanently dead inside.

Good thread.

 

[Winemaster]

enjoyed reading...

oh, yes!!!! I liked reading..."when it's not about money."....when we realize that most joys come from non materialistic things.... I am alive with good company and laughs....ok...may need money to buy some good wine...

 

[Aurora Black]

Right now.

 

[rawr_rae]

Right now.

That's great! Don't you ever wish wonderful right nows could be all the time. But then again, I guess if that were they case, they would lose their wonderfulness.

Wishin' you a wonderful right nowish day!

-Rae

 

[Aurora Black]

That's great! Don't you ever wish wonderful right nows could be all the time. But then again, I guess if that were they case, they would lose their wonderfulness.

Wishin' you a wonderful right nowish day!

-Rae

Thanks. Enjoy the cheesecake.

 

[Munachi]

when i am in some way moving, in some way between places. it makes me feel free, and feeling free makes me feel alive.

the first time i had this feeling (well maybe not the first time, but one i remember a lot) was in my exchange year: my time in the US was over, and i was in the plane to chile. i looked out the window and saw the lights of some city in the otherwise black night outside... and i realized that while i would miss my friends in oklahoma a lot i was on the way to something new, to a country i knew very little about, and where thus everything was possible. i could imagine what i wanted about the new life that awaited me, because there was no reality to it yet... it gave me a feeling of complete freedom.

the second time i had this feeling was in a bus from the town where i lived in chile up to a town in northern chile where i wanted to visit some friends. it was a long busride, overnight, and i woke up a while before sunrise. everyone else was sleeping, and i started looking out the window. outside, there was the desert and the sea, and a dark blue sky. everything, in fact, looked blue. except for the moon, which for some reason was brightly orange and very big. this intense blue and orange looked like an expressionist painting to me... sometimes we passed some houses and there were orange street lights, at other times there was no sign for human life for hours. it made me feel very free again.

this has now happened more often, on all kinds of occasions, and not only in planes or busses, but also in cars, or while hiking, or on bikes. like, on my recent bike tour through sweden, i would sometimes realize i am in this beautiful landscape, on a lonely road where only every half hour a car passes me, seeing things most tourists don't even get to see, and i was even doing this with my own strength, rather than some machine's... made me feel very alive...

 

[Aurora Black]

I can't believe that I forgot to mention traveling in my list.

 

[Munachi]

oh, and root beer.