When do you feel the most ALIVE?

TitanicJake · 09-15-2007

When my boys win their wrestling matches
After a good workout
When I see something in nature and pause to observe the beauty of it
When I am about to fill someone with my cum, at that moment I am so fucking alive every nerve is feeling such pleasure
-Jake

viking1 · 09-15-2007

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Originally Posted by IknowKK

OK... I know I am lucky to be able to do what I'm doing... it was just hard work and good investing

A shocking statement to some but I'd asked myself the same question. If things had stayed the same, then probably no. So I set about changing 'things'! And now I think I do!

Hard work is a "given", but investing on my salary is a joke.

I don't think things can change for me at this point in time given the current conditions. Either way it most likely won't be as long as it has been...

Not_Punny · 09-15-2007

I'm most alive when I'm in the "now" -- and I'm most "dead" when I'm upset and worrying about things (which of course places me in an uncertain future, far away from the now).

Things that put me in the "now" -- in no particular order except perhaps the first one...

-- Intense sex
-- Romantic sex
-- Fun flirtations
-- Good jokes, clever word plays, anything that makes me laugh
-- My work - writing (but when it's "going" - not when it's "stuck")
-- Shopping, especially with my daughter, s/o or friends
-- Organizing closets
-- Cooking and laundry (as long as I'm not behind in my work)
-- A good meal with family and/or friends
-- A really good pale ale
-- Good conversation and friendly debates
-- Interesting threads at LPSG (sort of like conversation)
-- Playing brainiac games like Scrabble or Sudoku or charades
-- Exercise
-- Jitterbug, swing, disco, ballet, jazz, any kind of dance
-- When my kids accomplish something that makes THEM happy
-- When my kids say, "I love you, mom"

Hmmmm, I think I'm going to print the list and pin it up by my computer!

arliss · 09-15-2007

I feel most alive when I am interacting with my LPSG family

Think_Kink · 09-15-2007

After a few rum and coke.

submit452 · 09-15-2007

Chasing girls or listening to old 70's 80's METAL and when I masturbate thinking about hott guys.

36DD · 09-16-2007

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Originally Posted by jason_els

I feel most alive when I am most in awe. It could be a work of art, a page of a book, a beautiful or beloved person, a force of nature. To be confronted with that which is so novel as to force ourselves to think and understand something new about the world and, therefore, ourselves. It is to forget everything else but for that moment in time and simply behold what we could never imagine.

There are other times, rarer, when I find myself so content by being with the people I love, knowing they are also happy, and simply enjoying the pleasure of our mutual company, that I feel immensely grateful to be alive and to know that those I love feel the same way.

August evenings just as the sky turns to a peach pink haze, the heat of the day begins to fade. Fresh corn and cold steak, good beer and homemade salsa. On the verandah with friends, watching the sun slowly fade and then hang, as if the gloaming will never end. Time stops for just a little while as conversations held in shorts and t-shirts wander happily far into the lantern-lit night.

That's so scary...you are in my mind!

earllogjam · 09-18-2007

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Originally Posted by Love-it

In the mountains, especially in the High Sierra wilderness, polished granite, small springs with tiny wildflowers and lower down pocket meadows and mountain heather, trees bent by the wind and twisted, gnarled, desd trunks of ligtning killed pines weathering at altitude. The smell of wildness.

I seek that connection too. Sometimes it becomes so unbearable that I ditch work and head to the mountains or the beach. I particularly like sunny warm days in early Spring when everything is exploding in growth. I can almost feel I am growing under the sun with everything. Connection.

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Originally Posted by Bbucko

This is gonna sound pathetic, but it's true.

There's a club down here that plays vintage disco and hi-NRG (1975-85) on Sunday evenings. I started going to clubs when I was 18 in 1978, and chased the scene almost every night until I was 30.

When I'm on that dance floor, music booming (it sounds so different at "radio" volume) and lights going, I feel for just a moment like I'm still in my 20s. I don't feel the arthritis in my neck or the Peripheral Neuropathy in my ankles. It's a really incredible sensation.

Wow. Yes. I haven't been dancing in a while but I sure enjoyed that hedonistic animalistic tribal release of sweating and grinding with 100 other half naked guys - like we were in one testosterone frenzy glued together by the beating music. Altered state. Escape.

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Originally Posted by Gamel

I feel the most alive.. when I have achieved something very important for me!... you get the feeling that it was worth the hard work
:D

When I work hard I loose track of time. When I look back on a job well done (in my eyes) it is always satisfying.

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Originally Posted by mercurialbliss

I feel alive:

-when I accomplish something of importance to me
-when my creative juices are flowing
-when I make a client happy with their new space
-when I spend time with friends and family
-when I have the opportunity to see beauty in any form
-whenever I witness an act of kindness or find an opportunity to perform one.

but most of all, when i'm in love.

Nice. The next question would be- how do you know when you are in love?

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Originally Posted by viking1

About the only time that happens for me is when I'm working on something that really takes all my attention. Then I don't realize the passing of time.
It's a very rare thing for me that this will happen.

This happens to me too. It is the passion that swells inside of you when doing something you love to do. Bliss. All worries and time stops.

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Originally Posted by IknowKK

I agree that completing challenges and accomplishing things makes me feel alive, but all of those throughout my professional career, led to one thing.... me being here....
here

And this is where I feel most alive ever!
And in fact I now wonder whether for all that I used to thrive on all those challenges and accomplishments, were they not, in other ways, just killing me?!!?

That is one beautiful place. Wales? You are very fortunate. There is something about water that does that to me. You too?

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Originally Posted by TitanicJake

When my boys win their wrestling matches
After a good workout
When I see something in nature and pause to observe the beauty of it
When I am about to fill someone with my cum, at that moment I am so fucking alive every nerve is feeling such pleasure
-Jake

Nice.

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Originally Posted by Think_Kink

After a few rum and coke.

Funny, I feel the most dead when I am drunk.

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Originally Posted by 36DD

That's so scary...you are in my mind!

Yes, Jason_els has mentioned things that resonate with me too. Poetic stuff.

mercurialbliss · 09-18-2007

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Originally Posted by earllogjam

Nice. The next question would be- how do you know when you are in love?
.

Some things defy explanation and only experience can tell the tale.

simcha · 09-18-2007

Standing in the sea foam on the beach contemplating and praying
Dancing and singing in synagogue with my congregation during prayer
Spending time with friends and family
Playing or cuddling with my cat
Flying in a jet
Doing my job, which I love

NineInchCock_160IQ · 09-18-2007

Whenever I have a near-death experience driving recklessly in my car.

Whenever I have sex with a new partner, particularly one I'm very attracted to.

Whenever I visit a new place for the first time and don't know where I'm going.

NineInchCock_160IQ · 09-18-2007

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Originally Posted by mercurialbliss

but most of all, when i'm in love.

That one's good too, though I've almost killed myself in my car far more times than I've been in love.

Being creative works for me, too, but I don't really do this anymore. It worked for me in high school, though.

Any event which elicits an intense emotional response from me... whether joy, anguish, love, remorse... whatever. Most of the time I'm on a very even keel and typically feel pretty numb so those moments stand out.

dcwrestlefan · 09-18-2007

the first time i went to colorado and saw the rocky mountains. wow.

SpeedoGuy · 09-18-2007

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Originally Posted by Love-it

In the mountains, especially in the High Sierra wilderness, polished granite, small springs with tiny wildflowers and lower down pocket meadows and mountain heather, trees bent by the wind and twisted, gnarled, desd trunks of ligtning killed pines weathering at altitude. The smell of wildness.

Exactly the same here. I'm most alive in the outdoors on a sunny summer afternoon.

My memorable alive feeling came after a vigorous and slightly risky climb up Mt. Lyell in Yosemite National Park (13,000+ ft). It wasn't a technically difficult climb but there were a few spots that had significant exposure (i.e. risk of death from a fall). My heart was pounding and my palms were sweaty from the thrill and the exertion of the climb. It took stamina and complete concentration to reach the summit. The temptation to turn back was considerable. However, resting on top with the view of the world below me sparked the most satisfying feel of accomplishment I can ever remember.

nudeyorker · 09-18-2007

Down Hill slalom skiing. 1st choice Mageve France 2nd choice the back bowls of Vail

When do you feel the most ALIVE?

When my boys win their wrestling matches After a good workout When I see something in nature and pause to observe the beauty of it When I am about to fill someone with my cum,