when do feel most alive?

[rawr_rae]

Life is such a beautiful thing, but I feel I take mine forgranted day in and day out. Most of the time I fill up my life with so much activity, I never take the time to stop and reflect on the little things that make life so very special. Today, I was sauntering over to class, and I just suddenly stopped. I slowly spun around in a circle, and absorbed my surroundings. I viewed the vast, antique buildings rooted like islands among a sea of lush, vivid green. The huge, ancient trees swayed and flowed as ballerinas do during performances. My peers swarmed around me like bees, all hurrying to their next task and trying to obtain that honey-colored education. It seemed like the whole world around was putting on this great show, and I had been missing out until that very moment.

I feel most alive when I'm with my family and close friends, when I'm drawing or painting and the whole world around me just kind of dims, when I'm swimming and the gliding sensation actually makes me feel graceful (I'm about as graceful as an elephant a majority of the time), when I'm looking into the night sky and the stars are actually visible, and so many other small things in life.

When do you feel most alive? Do you take these moments forgranted?

 

[ringle]

When I'm sleeping. Truly.

 

[S-Des]

When I'm with my daughter. She makes everything beautiful.

Other than that, performing live. The biggest show I did was for about 50,000 people and it's something I'll never forget. The memories are almost as vivid today as they were 8 years ago. Even small shows where a handful of people were having a great time made me feel like a rock star.

 

[sethp]

I feel alive

I feel alive when my stories get read! I live vicariously through the approval of others.

 

[McKenna]

I will admit to a small adrenaline addiction. I feel the most alive when I'm doing something that gets the blood pumping.

I also feel alive when I'm out and about in nature, "communing" if you will, because it truly is a spiritual experience for me.

Finally, I feel the most alive when I'm laughing. Not a polite chuckle or a guffaw, but the kind of laughing you do with family and friends who know you well, when you sit down for an evening of storytelling and bullshit sessions that go on into the wee hours of the night because everyone's having too good a time to stop laughing.

 

[The_Fool]

I live a little more when the words flow and die a little when they stop. I live a little more when the kindness flows and die a little when the anger starts. I live a little more when friends are friends and die a little when they move on in life.

 

[Guest]

I feel alive when I read The_Fool's poetry.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I'm with McKenna.....nature.

I'm most alive when I've blended into the nature around me. Being on still water shrouded in fog at dawn.

Going into the woods, being completely still and seeing the woods come alive around me. This can be close to a religious experience at times for me. I've had squirrels run across my legs before, never knowing I was there. I've had deer walk within 3 feet of me never knowing I was there. I get so tuned in to all of the little things going on that I've actually heard mice walking through the grass.

Nature has so much splendor that people take for granted. From the lush green hills of Ky, to the spectacular sunsets of the Arizona desert. It's all such a marvelous collage of a million wonderful little things. Sadly, too few people take the time to notice such things.

 

[CharleyH]

Life is such a beautiful thing, but I feel I take mine forgranted day in and day out. Most of the time I fill up my life with so much activity, I never take the time to stop and reflect on the little things that make life so very special. Today, I was sauntering over to class, and I just suddenly stopped. I slowly spun around in a circle, and absorbed my surroundings. I viewed the vast, antique buildings rooted like islands among a sea of lush, vivid green. The huge, ancient trees swayed and flowed as ballerinas do during performances. My peers swarmed around me like bees, all hurrying to their next task and trying to obtain that honey-colored education. It seemed like the whole world around was putting on this great show, and I had been missing out until that very moment.

I feel most alive when I'm with my family and close friends, when I'm drawing or painting and the whole world around me just kind of dims, when I'm swimming and the gliding sensation actually makes me feel graceful (I'm about as graceful as an elephant a majority of the time), when I'm looking into the night sky and the stars are actually visible, and so many other small things in life.

When do you feel most alive? Do you take these moments forgranted?

Great post Rawr.

 

[izabella]

I am most alive when in the arms of my lover.

 

[rgraham666]

Although I bitch and moan a lot, and sometimes get down, I feel alive most of the time.

It comes from having been severely mentally ill for a long time and trying to take my own life.

People often wish me 'Good day'. I reply 'They all are if you're still around to see them'.

 

[Guest]

mountain hiking

rollerblading

jumping on the trampoline with the kids

power walkin in the park

swimming in a freezing cold stream or river



anything physical really

and sex ofcourse

 

[scheherazade_79]

Wicked thread, Rawr


Travelling over a long period of time. Reaching that point where you're not sure where the hell you are, or where you're going to be sleeping that night... and you really don't give a shit.

Being on a deserted beach or in an empty forest.

Any kind of disaster / mishap - I get the adrenaline thing going big time.

Driving fast on mountain roads.

Skating fast down insanely steep hills.

Standing in the middle of M&S food hall with an empty shopping trolley and a purse full of credit cards.

Being in Amsterdam.

 

[Guest]

i think mckenna said it perfectly...laughter, is what makes me feel alive.
that and being surrounded by friends/fam. (really, once you're a friend, i consider you fam...)


i love you Rae... you rock, sis

 

[Liar]

in boats

Not sure why, but there's a feeling when I'm at sea that I don't get anywhere else. Somehow connected to att the shores I could theoretyically reach, less bound to where I am and more in control of myself.

 

[matriarch]

When I'm by the ocean, particularly when the sea is rough and crashing against the shore. Gets my blood pounding.

Driving around my favourite spots, and coming around a point to see a cliff or sweeping hills before me, a view that makes me gasp.

Looking up at the myriad stars on a clear night, when the sky is like black velvet, and I feel myself drowning in the silvery sparkles above me.

When I'm with the people I love the most. Their love gives me my reason for living.

One of those laughing sessions, when it hurts, when its uncontrollable, when you have to leave the room, rather than look at the person you're laughing with for fear of starting up again and bursting something. Exhausting, but spectacularly good.

Every time I wake up and see her face on the pillow next to me. She's beautiful every day, but when she's sleeping, she simply takes my breath away.

 

[English Lady]

Nature works for me too. On top of mountains/cliffs and by the sea especially. Places where I feel the wind whipping round me, roseying up my cheeks and blowing the cobwebs from my mind.


When I'm praising God I feel so alive. I feel the words vibrating out of me, I see visions of beauty behind my closed eyes and I feel refreshed, renewed and ready to go out into the world again.

Being with my husband, in all senses of the word, but especially sexually -I zing.

My daughter reminds me of all that is good in the world, so when I am with her i feel alive and I pay mre attentino to the livig world around me then too.


Laughter and moments of joy as well as sadness and heartbreak. I know when my mum had that car accident I was well awarw of life and how fragile it is.

 

[Guest]

its funny how, sometimes, others can express how you feel better than you can yourself.

 

[Guest]

its funny how, sometimes, others can express how you feel better than you can yourself.

what she said

 

[Aurora Black]

In no particular order...

When I write something that I'm passionate about.

When I read a very good book (or watch a movie) that engages my emotions and makes me think.

When I'm with my guy.

When I feel one with nature. Woods, mountains, sea. I love it all.

When a thunderstorm rolls in.

When I'm making love.

When I'm working out.

When I ride a scary rollercoaster.

When I hold a baby.

 

[impressive]

When I'm with my daughter. She makes everything beautiful.

I love this.

I feel most alive when ...

- laughing
- sexing
- creating
- sharing
- singing
- dancing

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I feel alive......

When I play my guitar and strugle with the fingering then suddenly its right and its sounds right and I know that music came out of me.

When I share a piece of my creation, art, poem, story or script, and someone says it moved them, or made them smile.

When I smile at a stranger and they smile back.

When I flirt.

When the wind blows and the trees dance their slow waving dance, and the water top ripples its so happy to hear the music and I walk through it, crunching leaves under my feet for a rhtythm.

When I smell autumn in the air, and I can see when someone else smells it too.

I feel alive when I truly live.

 

[rawr_rae]

its funny how, sometimes, others can express how you feel better than you can yourself.

Exactly. Love you, too, Vella Bella.
I love hearing about other people's happy times and good experiences. What can I say? It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks for sharing everyone. I wish I could gather everyone up and we can all do the things that make us feel alive all together.

You know what will really make me feel alive today? If I can ace this Chem exam! That would just brighten my day....Wow, I'm glad that's all I have to worry about in my life. I am truly blessed.

-Rae

 

[rawr_rae]

When I'm with my daughter. She makes everything beautiful.

Other than that, performing live. The biggest show I did was for about 50,000 people and it's something I'll never forget. The memories are almost as vivid today as they were 8 years ago. Even small shows where a handful of people were having a great time made me feel like a rock star.

Kids are just fantastic aren't they? Love 'em!

I didn't know you performed! Wow, are you the vocalist or do you play an instrument or are you just so awesome you do both?

-Rae

 

[rawr_rae]

I live a little more when the words flow and die a little when they stop. I live a little more when the kindness flows and die a little when the anger starts. I live a little more when friends are friends and die a little when they move on in life.

So very true.

-Rae