Alive Moments

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pip57
pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

A couple of women on the "Are you an optimist?" topic  had some beautiful stories about the simple times when you really feel 'alive'.  Lets share those moments with one another.

I feel alive and connected to the world when I am sitting on my front porch, in my wicker rocking chair, watching a good thunderstorm.  We live in the country so the show is not diluted by lights.  I swear you can feel the heat of the lightening sometimes.  It surrounds our house in a 'good' storm.  And when the wind picks up you can hear the old trees creaking and twigs snapping. The smell of electricity and sweet scent of the rain cannot be reproduced by any fragrance company. That is when I feel minute in the presence of mother nature and at peace with it all. 

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  • Wintermoon623
    Wintermoon623 Member Posts: 119
    edited August 2008

    I live near the ocean...there is nothing better for me than standing at water's edge (in the off season when no one's around) listening to the waves crash and the segulls cry.  It is there that I feel most connected with the power of the universe. 

    Oh...it is especially powerful at night when a full moon is rising... 

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited August 2008

    Last night my 23-year-old daughter took my husband and me to a Tom Petty concert for our 30th anniversary. Singing along to the music and shoulder bumping my dd made me feel pretty alive.

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  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 7,618
    edited August 2008

    My most "alive" moments are riding 4-wheelers with my husband, especially when the weather is cooler on a wooded trail with some mud to make you slide just a little :) The longer straight trails are fun too because we can always go a little faster and can feel the breeze blowing through my hair. Which makes me thankful that I now have hair!! The smell of fresh brewed coffee gives me a warm fuzzy also :)

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited August 2008

    Don't you love going over those funny bumps in the road that are like going over the hill on a roller coaster???  Wheeeeeeeeee!

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited August 2008

    Oh, Tina, I LOVE those roller coaster hills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Better than actual roller coasters, but some of those are pretty great too, especially the old wooden ones!

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  • yellowrose
    yellowrose Member Posts: 886
    edited September 2010

    Years ago I loved sitting at the beach after a storm and watching the crashing waves.  Now that I live far away from the ocean, my favorite time is walking in the rain.  Anytime I see folks avoiding getting wet, it just makes me want to find a big ole puddle and kick up my feet. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2008

    My husband and I have gone on annual Harley trips each year for the past 10 years with friends. Riding on a back road, enjoying the fabulous scenery, with the wind in your face and friends around you ... it's the best!

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  • winner
    winner Member Posts: 50
    edited August 2008

    I feel alive when God allows me to feel his love within.  I KNOW this sounds absolutely NUTS but it is so true.  It is hard to explain but I can ACTUALLY FEEL it and it FEELS AMAZING.  Extremely pure and overwhelming LOVE is the only way I can describe it.

    No I am not going crazy.  LOL.  I have NEVER FELT SOMETHING MORE REAL!!!!

    BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2008

    Beautiful sentiments, ladies! 

    I've got a bunch, but the first ones that pop into my head is when I feel my 4 year old son reach his arms around my neck and hear him whisper, "I love you, Mommy."  I also feel it when I hug my husband of 5 years (my love of 6 years) and hold him just as tightly as I did the first time I hugged him. 


    They were the two reasons I fought like mad with this disease, and they are the two reasons I am grateful to be alive. 

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  • sccruiser
    sccruiser Member Posts: 1,119
    edited August 2008

    I feel my alive moments--have to be plural, as when I do the task the moment is repeated--when I am gardening in my yard. The smell of the damp earth as I turn it over, and my gray kitty sitting and watching me plant a shrub or flowering plant. There's also the smell of the Redwood trees that is unlike any other "piney" smell. And the sun peeks between the trees and warms the air making the tree smell even stronger.

    Another moment is also similar to others--being at the ocean--takes me back to sleeping at the beach house in So CA with the windows open--and waking to that fresh sea air and listening to the waves wash over the sand (or in the winter over the rocky shore, as the sand is swept away in winter, and returned in the spring) while laying in bed with my hubby as we become more awake each moment. When I go to the ocean cliffs near our home, I get that same memory back, forever ingrained in my mind. Lovely!

    A recent alive moment is saying hello to my 15 month old granddaughter, Lexi, and seeing her eyes light up and her big smile as she looks up to the deck where I am standing; and she bounces in her mom's arms--like get me up there quick, I want my granny hug! When I am with her, I go into these Zen moments as I am emmersed in watching her movements and interactions with her environment. Just wonderfully indescribeable in words!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2008

    When I go to the lake and hop in the canoe on a calm day and take in the wonders of this beautiful creation in which we live.

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited August 2008

    we have a lake near home. last year we took the kids there . i just laid on a raft. i could have laid 4 ever...

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  • MissUniverse
    MissUniverse Member Posts: 75
    edited August 2008

    I feel most alive when I am laughing, because then I know that I haven't lost a huge part of me as I've dealt with this disease - my sense of humor.  Whether it is laughing and laughing  when my BFF of over 30 years and I got lost near the docks of San Diego and we sang "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" until we found the freeway or when  I laughed and laughed when I played "golf polo" with my girls from my office at our annual golf tourament - couldn't hit the ball for anything the normal way, but you should see me play golf polo, we decided it needs to be a new Olympic sport, one that we would watch!!  These times are so cathartic for me. They let me know that I haven't lost me to this disease.

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