Remember when you were most alive?

Some months ago, when the beloved man in my life and I realised we were far more than friends. Without ever searching for it, we each had found the Great Love of our lives. Such a deep and

truly effortless connection. Intimacy on all levels. Spiritual being the most profound. Perhaps this is but one of many lives we have shared. He certainly believes so.♥️
 

Shalimar said:
Some months ago, when the beloved man in my life and I realised we were far more than friends. Without ever searching for it, we each had found the Great Love of our lives. Such a deep and

truly effortless connection. Intimacy on all levels. Spiritual being the most profound. Perhaps this is but one of many lives we have shared. He certainly believes so.♥️
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This is incredible beautiful! You found each other again!
 
Geezer Garage said:
Probably when I was in country, getting shot at. Nothing like someone trying to kill you, to make you feel alive. Even so, I don't want to do it again. Other than that, 140 mph on a motorcycle on a remote stretch of highway comes pretty close.
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Wow! Yeah, That'll do it!
 
In my mid 20's .. had broken off the 4 year relationship with boyfriend (much later, found out he hadn't been true to me - though he cried when I told him I wanted to break it off). There were indications that he wasn't particularly honest. He also showed himself to be somewhat selfish. Anyway, I followed my gut instinct. I suddenly felt free, and in control. After that, only good things followed.
 
Pinky said:
In my mid 20's .. had broken off the 4 year relationship with boyfriend (much later, found out he hadn't been true to me - though he cried when I told him I wanted to break it off). There were indications that he wasn't particularly honest. He also showed himself to be somewhat selfish. Anyway, I followed my gut instinct. I suddenly felt free, and in control. After that, only good things followed.
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Yes, The day your life really begins is the day you realize your life is your own. (no apologizes) This was a period of incredible growth.
Thanks for telling us.
 
The day that I graduated from the Naval Academy and I knew my life was finally going to begin. I became a 2nd LT and was assigned to flight school, along with 5 years as my first obligation to the Marines. I was sent to Pensacola for my first preflight indoctrination. I was beginning to live my dream.
 
When I arrived back home in the good old U.S. of A. from Vietnam. I never felt so relieved. I didn’t have to look in the trees anymore. I could go back to hiking without having to worry if there was a trip wire I could step on. I never realized how much different I would feel emotionally being home and feeling safe.
 
Been There said:
The day that I graduated from the Naval Academy and I knew my life was finally going to begin. I became a 2nd LT and was assigned to flight school, along with 5 years as my first obligation to the Marines. I was sent to Pensacola for my first preflight indoctrination. I was beginning to live my dream.
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Good for you. That had to be a great experience. Did you fly for the Navy or Marines? What year did you graduate? I flew with a few former Naval and Marine officers as an airline pilot. They always had some great stories to tell.
 
dseag2 said:
I feel most alive right now because I am retired and don't have all the distractions that were present in my 24/7 career. Every time I hear a bird chirp I realize I never heard it before because I was always wrapped up in thinking about my job.
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While it means i don't have as much disposable income now, this is a reason i'm glad i never pursued a 'career' i worked, but at jobs i could leave 'there' at end of day.
 
Here/now, especially when i'm outside in nature, day or night. Most of my life, my 'most alive' moments were those when i was fully present in the moment, when i was keenly aware of and responsive to every living thing around me, plant/animal.

This is true of joyful, sorrowful and what most would call fearful moments. I put that last the way i did because in all my decades i could count on one hand the incidents of immediate personal fear. Fear for my children a very different story, main theme of my few nightmares.

Also different, the feelings about closed in spaces till i got past my claustrophobia. But that's off topic. What i will mention, tho it is tangential to the question, is that for me there is a difference between feeling 'most alive' and 'most myself'.
 
I have been mauling this over since I started reading others posts and at first I thought every day for me I still feel that way but my past time was when I decided to move to Texas from Indiana. I was about 24. Don’t recall why just wanted a change. Packed up my things in a uhaul and off I went. The only person I knew in Texas was my uncle. He lived in Ft. Worth and he suggested I move to Dallas. I got a job at a funeral home (I loved that job) designing funeral flowers for a large funeral home/ cemetery. How could you not feel so alive when others lives had ended?
I moved back to Indiana about 13 years ago. We’ve been together going on 8 years and have a great life in retirement. I have been blessed.
 
I have a hard time remembering when I felt most alive. If you are asking about most awesome experiences, I don't know where to start. Most would be in the mountains of Montana's Wilderness Areas, always when I was by myself. There is one from my 1st year in Montana. I had hiked up to a high lake and camped overnight. The next morning I made my way to a smaller lake higher up without a trail. From there it was over a ridge to the top of a mountain, and then down to another night at a different pair of high lakes. The awesome moment was sitting at the shore of that second high lake on that first early morning. It was glassy calm, and I felt the most peacefully alone I had ever felt to that time in my life. I said to myself, "I will never forget this moment," and I never have. It's that peaceful place inside me that the gurus tell us to use when we seek calm and inner contentment. I don't go there often, but it is my "official" quiet place. Although in all honesty, it is never as good as the original experience. But just remembering that it is possible to feel that good, is something I always appreciate.
 
I love the ocean. It makes me feel small yet full of possibilities. Anytime I'm on the beach, I feel most alive.
 

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