Still thinking about this…I’m interested in contentment vs happiness. Prefer the former, but like you I remember a moment alone in Australia, walking with the bluest sky and the quietest quiet, aware that something inside of me was alert and awake that I hadn’t known before. I’ve never forgotten the feeling. I felt safe, in unison with it ALL, and as in content as I have ever felt.
Another thing that I can duplicate if I’m wanting to, is to elongate my body while I’m walking so that I experience an undeniable height and length that isn’t my “real” height. It’s as though I’m considerably taller and my perspective changes dramatically and pleasantly. Maybe it’s just that I’m standing up straight, but it always thrills me. The world around me seems clearer. Gets me goin’.
The day I arrived in Canada for a year abroad, it was already night when I was picked up. We rode about an hour and a half in the car of my host family and I remember looking out into the sky, marvelling at the amount of stars I could see. I swore to myself to never forget that day.
When I first travelled to Argentina, about 15 years later, I again entered the country at night time and yet again, this time in the front seat, I stared out at the stars. The milky way was clearly visible and I almost got a stiff neck as I sat with this feeling of thankfulness - for being alive and able to watch this. To experience this unique yet parallel moment in my personal life journey.
Probably we do wake up when we "die." I like the little people gut microbe theory. I can't remember a happy memory like yours post apple harvest. One happy rush was riding a running horse on a beach. That was exciting happy. Overall I enjoy when I feel an intimate companionship while doing some mundane life task with a friend. It also makes me happy when I write something that I like or when I read something I like, so thanks!
Yes, near Florence, Oregon. Actually, the cool part was it did seem fun for both of us. I didn't ask the horse to run, it just ran with exuberance. SEEK GLORY!
👆 a delight. i am so glad you are here. so glad i am here too. under a magnolia tree when i was small enough to stand beneath the bottom boughs. i could tell and smell that life was / & still is good …
under the magnolia tree / beautiful / one day on my bike ride i stopped to smell a flowering shrub that was obstructing the sidewalk and noticed that while i was experiencing that scent i couldn't entertain any negative thoughts (which had been bothering me) it was like that smell and the negative thoughts were incompatible / hmm
Still thinking about this…I’m interested in contentment vs happiness. Prefer the former, but like you I remember a moment alone in Australia, walking with the bluest sky and the quietest quiet, aware that something inside of me was alert and awake that I hadn’t known before. I’ve never forgotten the feeling. I felt safe, in unison with it ALL, and as in content as I have ever felt.
Another thing that I can duplicate if I’m wanting to, is to elongate my body while I’m walking so that I experience an undeniable height and length that isn’t my “real” height. It’s as though I’m considerably taller and my perspective changes dramatically and pleasantly. Maybe it’s just that I’m standing up straight, but it always thrills me. The world around me seems clearer. Gets me goin’.
Thanks for the prompt. Bar
thanks for the comment / i enjoyed that
The day I arrived in Canada for a year abroad, it was already night when I was picked up. We rode about an hour and a half in the car of my host family and I remember looking out into the sky, marvelling at the amount of stars I could see. I swore to myself to never forget that day.
When I first travelled to Argentina, about 15 years later, I again entered the country at night time and yet again, this time in the front seat, I stared out at the stars. The milky way was clearly visible and I almost got a stiff neck as I sat with this feeling of thankfulness - for being alive and able to watch this. To experience this unique yet parallel moment in my personal life journey.
sehr cool
Probably we do wake up when we "die." I like the little people gut microbe theory. I can't remember a happy memory like yours post apple harvest. One happy rush was riding a running horse on a beach. That was exciting happy. Overall I enjoy when I feel an intimate companionship while doing some mundane life task with a friend. It also makes me happy when I write something that I like or when I read something I like, so thanks!
wow riding a horse on the beach !! sounds like a good time for both of you / was that on the oregon coast ??
Yes, near Florence, Oregon. Actually, the cool part was it did seem fun for both of us. I didn't ask the horse to run, it just ran with exuberance. SEEK GLORY!
👆 a delight. i am so glad you are here. so glad i am here too. under a magnolia tree when i was small enough to stand beneath the bottom boughs. i could tell and smell that life was / & still is good …
under the magnolia tree / beautiful / one day on my bike ride i stopped to smell a flowering shrub that was obstructing the sidewalk and noticed that while i was experiencing that scent i couldn't entertain any negative thoughts (which had been bothering me) it was like that smell and the negative thoughts were incompatible / hmm
yes exactly. 💓