gimme your thoughts. I want to gobble them up.

[jemz]

So I was driving home from work, stuck in traffic and all that good stuff when a stray thought struck me and I had to share.

Have you ever looked back at your life and found a moment in which you felt content?

Content with life. Content with how everything is going. Or content with a relationship, job, or opportunity?

How did you realize the moment? Where were you when this epiphany of calmness struck you? Does the moment involve an accomplishment? Or did revolve around a feeling? Or an event? Or around someone else who held significant importance in your life?

C'mon and spill it for me. I am insatiatably curious about it.



For me, I recently had a moment like that. It was after many hardships were over and I was sitting by Michelle's grave, reading her some slash (of course). At an odd moment in my reading of teh beautiful tale, I just stopped. A strange tingling feeling went up and down my spine and I sorta stared absentmindedly at her tombstone. It was morbid but yet peaceful. I'm sitting at a cemetary and somehow felt that things were okay and that better things were to come. Sort of like one of those soothing hugs you get after you got into a scrape and can't get out, you run to Mom or Dad for help and they make it completely better? It was like that. That my troubles were small and easily conquerable and that life was good. I went through the rest of the week feeling content with life.


Okay...now it's your turn!

Comments

[zahavah.livejournal.com]

i had a moment like that a few months ago. it was during UF's spring break, when 1/3 of the city's population leaves (50,000 of 150,000)... and i was driving somewhere, i don't remember where... i think the library. it was a saturday morning, i wasn't in a hurry, and there was a song on the radio that i really liked but didn't know the words to. there was no one else on the road, it had just rained, and i was just.. happy.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

oooooh. I just love those types of moments.

*huggles*

[zahavah.livejournal.com]

i also feel like that pretty often when i'm playing piano.... i'll just forget about everything except the music, without even realizing i have until i finish playing. sometimes i look at my hands as if i'm watching someone else play.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I love watching people play instruments. There's something so wonderful about watching someone become lost in the beauty of the music they create.

[no8ody.livejournal.com]

my turn, my turn!

This was back in 2001, a few months after J and I were going out. I was hanging out with J at Lake Cunningham. We were just talking and enjoying the stillness...I was happy. I couldn't be happier. Life was simple. :]

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

=-]

Life is always good when it's simple. *huggles*

[dropsofme.livejournal.com]

It was back in '99, a lonnnng time ago ;p Terry and I had been going out for a few months and he told me he loved me. And we kissed and I could feel the sun streaming through my closed eyes and felt safe for the first time in a long time.
It made me happy even though there was a lot of crappy things going on in my life, that moment took me away from all that.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

awwww...what a wonderful moment!!!

I love remembering those moments of feeling at peace with the world. So nice and it brings a bit of remembered happiness, cheering me up.

*snuggles*

[closet-bound.livejournal.com]

i had a moment like that a few years ago, during my freshman year of college. i've never made friends easily, and i freaked out when i left for school. one night, a couple of weeks before christmas, i was heading down to the coffee shop to meet my friends, like i did every night. for some reason, it just hit me that i was happy, really happy, with my life. there were people waiting for me there that would notice and care if i didn't show up. it probably sounds kind of silly, but i don't think i'll ever forget that moment. i just stopped for a beat in the middle of the quad.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

*pounces and snuggles*

Oooooh. What a wonderful moment! *loves* those are some of the best moments.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell yeah!
Mine was during the Spring/Summer of 2000. It was when L & I first met. I was going through the hardest time of my life. However, something beautiful happened and I remember I was simply HAPPY! To me, it was the worst of times and it was the best of times!
Things have changed!
*sigh*
~7ram

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I had one of those moments with Druz....looking back at it, it still makes me smile.

*snuggles* I'm sure things will change again, for the better. Love ya, 7rammie.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I remember how you were when you talked about him;-)
For me, it's not important anymore. I'm OK with things the way they are.
*hugs*
~7ram