One image, and it is yours forever...

[Merelan]

Have any of you ever seen someone, just once. Yet, even now, years later, the image of them is clearer then any other?
Was it a girl walking along the beach, her skirts whipping in the wind? Did you fall in love with this nameless beauty?

Or a child playing in his yard? and longed to join him?

or was it the smile of an older woman you helped with a bag or door?
Or maybe not a person, but an image...


Was it a butterfly poised on the edge of a flower?

or a sunset that filled your soul.

One image, only one and it is forever a part of you.

I know, merelan feeling poetical. Better watch out.

 

[Rambling Rose]

You know, I never really considered this but yes. There have been people I've seen fleetingly over the years that are still etched on my mind's eye. I wonder if there are people walking around that I never met who can see me when they close their eyes?

That's a little disconcerting actually.

 

[Merelan]

I never thought of it in the reverse... yikes.

 

[wizbit9]

standing on top of the french alps looking across the scenery. awsome!

watching Shane mcgowen of the pogues walking off a stage with smoke engulfing him and just his shadow moving

 

[Gingersnap]

Yup I know exactly what you mean. Like your mind goes SNAP and it's there beside the person's name forever even when you add others to the collection.

 

[Rambling Rose]

Close to my house are several small parks with apartment buildings flanking the borders. One hot summer day I was driving home and passed a young boy on a stoop with a small cardboard sign in his lap. The sign read:

Would you like to be my friend?

I was so touched. I always wondered what happened to that little boy.

 

[CarolineOh]

There is a scene in Citizen Kane where one of the characters talks about he time he saw a pretty girl get off the ferry, many many years earlier, but he remembers exactly what she looked like.
I remember a boy I talked to for just a minute at the zoo when I was in the 7th grade. I can still see the way the wind blew his hair and the sun glinted off his glasses.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

I actually have two.

1) The day I met my best friend when I was 3. I remember the dress I wore, the weather, the dress she wore, even the colour of the cream in the cookie I was eating. I will never forget that day.

2) An old friend of mine (coincidentally, the first woman I was ever with).... it was right before graduation, and she was sitting up in the right wing of the school, playing her guitar on the balcony, singing Greenday's 'Time of your Life'.... I walked up the stairs, and I saw her beautiful face, and listened to her sing, and just watched her for a moment.. and I knew I would never forget it....

 

[lilpriss]

I would say there are quite a few...

One that I remember the most vividly is a first kiss between a particular lover and I...

It was the most amazing situation I've ever been involved in, so intense... I had on a pink blouse and a pair of shorts that were really too big and he had on jeans and a button down plaid shirt... we were sitting on my couch reading a book on astrology... seeing if our signs were compatible... (they were)

He looked so deeply into my eyes and leaned into me... I remember his eyes were the most beautiful shade of blue I have ever seen... they had lighter blue ... like spiderwebs... in them and he was so "hungry" for me. It actually scared me and I backed up, but my god when our lips met it was the most incredible kiss in the world. I can still feel his body weight on me as things progressed and the texture of his hand as it slid up my shirt... Dang, I'm getting horny!

 

[Starshine]

Yes another "rare" post from me.....

There are a few once I sat down and thought about it....

When I was doing some setup work for a vitamin company at various grocery stores in the northeast. It involved a lot of travelling. I can remember going through Vermont on Route 89 heading north away from Burlington. The view west towards New York over Lake Champlain was breath taking. The Adirondack Mountains were snow covered, the lake glistening from the setting sun.

I haven't been back since.

The other is when I was 3 years old. My parents, sister & I lived in the Philippines for 3 years. The monsoon season was ending. & my parents allowed me to go outside and play in the driveway. It was very long and would always flood. I would sit right in the middle the driveway as the water flowed around me (it was maybe a few inches deep). I can remember how good the water felt around me & the sound of the rain as it hit the flowing water. I had a small toy boat I would let the current take. I'd let it go so far & run splashing through the water after it. It was an amazing feeling. I did this a number of times. I can remember it ending quickly when I let the boat go too far to the point where the driveway got steeper & the current faster, I never caught up to it... I lost that boat. To this day I still wonder where the boat went..... I have a bittersweet memory of that time....

 

[Kitte]

I have one image so ingrained in my brain, it is like looking at a photograph just to think of it..I need not even close my eyes to see it as if it were right in front of me...

Standing outside in the cold march air holding my step daughter in my arms staring at my apartment engulfed in flames and having no idea where my husband was. Looking past the fire to see him emerging from the smoke, his hair blowing in the breeze created by the overpowering flames. His hands fisted in the pockets of his jacket. His feet bare...

 

[Ezarc]

I have too many to count. My favorites are the birth of my boys. My oldest shivering in his first visit outside the womb, little hands shaking. My youngest, who didn't breath for several minutes due to being born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, blue but pissed with his first powerful scream.
Take Care and Lust Always,
Ezarc

 

[glamorilla]

that's so sweet.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

several...

1. the moment I found out my grandmother had died

2. the day I found out I got into college...and the day I got into grad school

3. being told I was a "goddess" by an ex of mine

4. Other moments that are like snapshots for me

 

[Star of Penumbra]

The most vivid image I have is of the insides of my own arms, a long stinging red line down my left, and a razor blade in my right. Both hands are covered in my own blood.

The stain from that is still on the floor of my room.

 

[skye in silk]

Prom night Senior year. Me in my sweats, hair a mess. driving on the freeway an hour away from my hometown because i didn't want to see anyone from high school. just me and a extra large tub of popcorn, Madonna's Truth or Dare movie, a prom night to remember. Driving fast, singing to John Cougar Mellancamp's Jack and Diane. The night unseasonably hot. The sun sinking to my left. glancing into the next lane. i see them. piled into the car, 4 of who they called the six pack. best friends you know the ones. cheerleaders, valadictorians, athletes and their dates. dressed up in their finest. hair attempting to be glamorous, but actually just looking silly. They are laughing and talking, through the open window i hear that they are singing along to the same song that i am listening. watching them. the see me. they start laughing. and waving. the boys kiss the window. and i see the pity and smirks on their faces. i get off at the next exit. sit at the end of the exit and cry as i listen to the end of the song.

I know its stupid. but when you are 18 years old and wanting to fit in so desperately. it kind of stays with you.

skye

 

[Merelan]

You have all been so wonderful. Your images so clear.

See how that image stayed with you? became a part of you?

The scent in the air, the song playing. All insignifigant, yet vital to our memories.

One of mine was a woman striding down the college campus. Her hair flying, her skirts whipping in the wind. Confidant, smiling at everyone. The whole world at her feet.
How I longed to be her.

I think I am succeeding.