To ask if you've ever experience a moment of pure happiness?

[PaddleBoardingMomma]

I'm talking unadulterated pure bliss, a moment in life you just knew there and then was what real happiness felt like, a moment captured in time you can look back on now and still feel joyous about? If so... please share :)

I've never felt it, not that "perfect" moment any way. I'm beginning to wonder if it's happened and I didn't appreciate it, or if it's just never happened for me. Maybe other peoples stories might help me decide the answer on that one!

This sums it up for me. It’s often not about an amazing experience but finding joy in the people around you and the environment you are in.

www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/s/simon-armitage-it-aint-what-you-do-its-what-it-does-to-you.php

Frequently... this evening just sitting at the dinner table with my DH, we had a really nice meal (nothing posh, just pasta but it was nice) a glass or two of wine, looking forward to a couple of nights away in a Premier Inn. I thought how fortunate I am .. comfortable home, plenty to eat and drink, no health issues, no major worries. I am a glass half full person, I count my blessings every day and feel very blessed in my life.

In Tokyo and in love for the first time. I was 21. In Ueno Park at dusk, holding his hand. I'd always loved Japan and it was exactly what I'd hoped it would be, and falling in love was exactly as the movies had promised. It felt like everything was in its right place and I had gone to heaven. I said to him that this was what people spend their whole lives dreaming about.

Yes many many times but then although I've had a really hard life I am the eternal optimist and recognise a beautiful moment when I see one.

Every morning, when my 4.5 month old baby girl wakes up, sees me looking at her in her cot and gives me the most beautiful smile and kicks her legs because she's just so excited to see me! Melts my heart every single time.

One summer afternoon with my then 6 year old DD, packed a picnic and went off to a local lake for the afternoon. It was just a lovely, lovely afternoon. I'd bought her an ice cream and she had stuck the cone in the sand to run into the water, planning to come back and finish it, when a dog bounded by and grabbed it. It was so funny watching the dog joyously running off with the ice cream. Such a lovely afternoon and I knew at the time that things could never be better than that even if I won the lottery!

Has anybody ever had a moment of pure joy like this on their own?

My joy came from feeling connection and happiness with people around me, we were young and single and we were having fun together.
I have now grown up and I don’t have that network any more. I will remain single for the rest of my life and I wonder if that joy is possible going through life alone?

Very good @Singlebutmarried 😂

@Singlebutmarried

Yes, but my soul was taken away, I tormented the girl I loved and her family and friends.

I was sent to a hell dimension and eventually came back as a feral beast.

Never did get the girl, she went for some peroxide blond English ponce instead.

Hi Angel

Funnily enough my first thought was a moment on the beach too. It was just a moment of sunshine on my face, the feeling of sand on my skin and the sound of the sea. An afternoon of just lazing and reading lay ahead and I felt like the luckiest person alive.

When my baby girl was finally released from the NICU. She was whipped away straight after a very traumatic birth so we were separated pretty much immediately. I'll never forget beaming the whole way up through the hospital as she was wheeled from the unit up to my room. Now when she wakes up every morning, immediately looks for me and smiles. It's just pure love & happiness.

When I first kissed DP was amazing
When I passed my driving test
One day at a Christmas charity event when I saw kids playing they were really cute

I had one earlier when out for my first run in a few weeks. Clear blue sky, sun was low as it was late afternoon, gorgeous light. I had a cracking playlist of music on and I just thought.... Ahhhh this so bloody lovely.

To be honest I have these moments quite often, mostly when chasing my toddler outdoors or watching her faff around being silly.

I don't get this feeling with the big moments in life - didn't feel it on wedding day etc, just felt overwhelmed by the expectation of the day. It's 100% the small, quiet moments for me.

I have these moments often. When I look around my place, how much I've achieved since my divorce. When I walk home from dropping the kids at school, when my teenager comes to stay for a few day's and we hang out, it feels so easy. When I look at my girls all comfy in bed. I think I did this, I created this happy place for us. Thats pure happiness to me

@WhoIsBernieBrown

I had one earlier when out for my first run in a few weeks. Clear blue sky, sun was low as it was late afternoon, gorgeous light. I had a cracking playlist of music on and I just thought.... Ahhhh this so bloody lovely.

To be honest I have these moments quite often, mostly when chasing my toddler outdoors or watching her faff around being silly.

I don't get this feeling with the big moments in life - didn't feel it on wedding day etc, just felt overwhelmed by the expectation of the day. It's 100% the small, quiet moments for me.

Omg same

I have quite a few but nth exicifjnf when I say it really. Just the day was somehow perfect.

Maybe cuz I’m always runnng around or sleep deprived so a day where I get enough sleep and have nothing to do is lovely

Mine all seem to involve beaches and holidays.

Travelling the east coast of Australia alone for a week definitely felt like that for me. Incredible beaches that stretched for miles, doing hikes along the cliff edge that I never would have done alone in the U.K. and long drives up the coast with the promise of another gorgeous place waiting for me.

Also on a boat trip last summer in Greece. I love the sea so paid to rent a captain and a boat for an afternoon. DP gets seasick so I was quite worried beforehand but he was absolutely fine and we had the most amazing afternoon exploring secret places we never would have seen with a bigger boat. The sea around Zante was the bluest I’ve ever seen and I just felt so incredibly happy. I think also partly because we’d had so many holidays cancelled, we also felt so lucky to be there.

Emma yes ... I do feel pure joy on my own ... I am married but I absolutely love time on my own, I feel perfectly content and happy alone, I love going away on my own, I don't need my DH around to feel 'pure joy' ... I can be happy with him, but just as happy (probably more) on my own. I don't want to be responsible for anyone else happiness and I don't expect my DH, or anyone else, to 'make me happy'.

I do appreciate though that choosing to spend time on my own is not the same as not having the choice.

My first answer is never, but I'm going to think about it. I must have had happy times.
The beach doesn't do it for me though.

When feeding my babies and they looked up at me as I smiled down at them.

Being outside in the sun, at the allotment or on th garden, usually a robin hopping nearby for worms, feeling totally immersed and happy, fairly often when I'm lucky

I love reading these, so lovely

I have far too many to add them all but I love a good fast drive, music blasting, my sports car roaring away and a beautiful open road, roof down snd it's just heaven to me.

I feel free and powerful and carefree all at the same time.

@EmmaGracemum my most memorable moment of pure joy was so perfect because I was alone. I was staying in a very remote area, with about 10 other people (strangers, 1st day of the trip and I was very shy so had no bond or real interest in any of them!). There was a lookout point and a sat there on my own watching the sun set over the most incredible scenery amazed at how lucky I was to have visited that country and to be able to feel like I was the only person on earth.

It’s great that some of the posters take time to appreciate what they have. I don’t do that enough, and should be more aware.

Some outstanding ones for me were (shortly after) the birth of my kids. Problem pregnancies, and the relief, the joy, the love. It was amazing.

First time my BF fumbled with me he hit the mark. OMG Can you do that again?

Sitting in the hospital cafe on the maternity wing after giving birth to my first child, with whom I had a fairly long and arduous labour. My partner held her on his lap so I could eat. She was so quiet and beautiful. I was so glad it was over ... so delighted she was here, and mine.

I was allowed a free meal, having just given birth. It was mushroom soup, bread and butter. Mince and onions, mashed potatoes, a little square of pastry on top.

I don't even like beef, but it felt like the most delicious food I had ever eaten. I remember just sitting there, nourishing myself, gazing at my baby, free of pain and overflowing with joy.

My goodness these are so beautiful! Some real tear jerkers, it gives me such hope.

It's funny, I have two children and both times when I went into hospital to have them I thought this is it, this is going to be my perfect moment, when they're finally here and I'm holding them... but two awful births, both with huge blood loss and being so out of it I don't remember the first few hours out paid to that! And even now, I've had some wonderful times with them but I always seem to be so on edge and busy looking after them I don't stop to soak it all in. I'm going to make such a concentrated effort to change that, I so desperately want to feel what you guys have shared here x