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

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PaddleBoardingMomma · 27/01/2022 20:38

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!

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SunnyCoco · 27/01/2022 23:03

Drunk, sweaty, surrounded by mates singing and dancing in a club with my arms in the air

Seeing the most beautiful art exhibition, my knees were weak and I felt such bliss

Being on the back of a motorbike caning it down a beachside road with a friend, I felt so free and pure

LynetteScavo · 27/01/2022 23:04

Holding a sleeping baby

On beaches (both perfect moments were in Cornwall!)

Skiing in the French Alps (the beauty of the alps beats Canada or a anywhere else in Europe IMO)

Sitting with my cat. Totally unexpected perfect moments when he decides he loves me.

Waking up after an uninterrupted nights sleep.

The big moments such as my wedding day don't come close to the small unexpected moments of perfection.

AgathaAllAlong · 27/01/2022 23:04

Yes, I get it often with my children, just those small moments where they smile or run over for a hug or snuggle up to you. Definitely when my firstborn was handed to me, the relief of seeing him there in my arms and the immense love.

Pre-children, I've had three. Once when I finally visited Yellowstone national park. I'd wanted to go there since I was a child. I have this vivid recollection of stepping out into a clearing, sun shining down, birds singing and thinking "this is what it feels like to literally have your dreams come true".

Once when I got a job I really wanted and had tried very hard to get the qualifications for, it meant I could stay in the country I loved and could otherwise have had to move. I was on my way to meet my best friend. It was a perfect day, we spent it walking along the sea laughing and talking about the future. I still get emotional looking at the photos.

The third one is with the boyfriend I had as a teenager. I just remember the feeling of being with him and feeling this overwhelming sense of being where I was supposed to be, total happiness. All my memories of him and that time are literally tinted, like there's a photo filter on them. Happily married to someone else now, but have never felt that complete infatuation again.

Ohlalaohlala · 27/01/2022 23:05

The moment I met my children for the first time after I’d just given birth to them. Nothing has beaten it. I remember texting my friend to say ‘i’ve ever felt as lucky as I do today’ when I had my second because I felt complete. I radiated happiness, then the hormones kicked it Grin

Finallylostit · 27/01/2022 23:05

When one of my DCs spontaneously says
Mum I love you
Then carries on with what they were doing.

It jst makes me smile and I feel happy and content

Shannith · 27/01/2022 23:06

@friendlyflicka

I get quite a lot. Huge amount of them involve riding my horse: usually quite fast. Nothing I love more
@friendlyflicka me too. There is nothing like the feeling of galloping. I'm especially fond of a friends ex racer. The whoosh when she really lets down and flys... way, way better than sex Grin
Toomuch2do · 27/01/2022 23:07

Watching Oasis at Knebworth. Looking round at the joy on peoples’ faces and hearing quarter of a million people singing their hearts out. I was only 14 and it was my first concert, the atmosphere was electric.

Rosebel · 27/01/2022 23:15

When my son was born they rushed him to the side as he wasn't crying (I actually suspect he wasn't breathing) and I felt frozen.
Then he cried and they put him on my chest and I just had this moment of pure bliss and happiness.
I had to have a general anesthetic for the birth of my daughter's so it was a different experience.

springiscom · 27/01/2022 23:19

@SapphosRock

Yes but I used to take a lot of ecstasy
Ha ha I was going to say the same!
olderthanilookapparently · 27/01/2022 23:20

The day after my (second) wedding on the way to our honeymoon when I stopped and thought about what a great wedding day we'd had.

Bizarrely it was on the outside lane of the m25!!!

I cried a bit

NerdyBird · 27/01/2022 23:21

When my daughter was born. Not sure I've had any since then. I do get moments of happiness (mostly with her) but not quite like that. It was the best feeling ever.

ronconcoke · 27/01/2022 23:22

This thread has made me cry! Some really lovely memories.

For me, 2 moments in my life where I felt pure happiness: one was on a beach in the south of France when I was 12, we'd spent the day there, my parents, my older brother, his best friend (who i had a childhood crush on), my cousin who was also one of my best friends, a very dear auntie who is no longer with us and 2 lovely, funny friends of my parents' who lived down there. After a day of playing in the sea altogether we had an unforgettable picnic on the beach at dusk as the sun was setting around the bay and later the moon came up and shone down on the sea and I just remember feeling so happy. Smile

The second moment was totally random, I was with DH, then 5 yo DS and 3 month old DD and 3 of DH's (older) teenage nephews had come from abroad to stay with us. It was a warm day in July and we took them to a local village and renowned beauty spot for the afternoon. We found a little field by a stream and I sat down to breastfeed DD. DH fell asleep beside me and the 3 nephews played games with DS by the stream. I just felt so happy and peaceful.

cantseeforlooking · 27/01/2022 23:23

Mine is a odd one ,

I was sat a work and received a call , my colleague needed to speak to the person also and it all got a bit silly and I said unfortunately she couldn't come to phone because of xxxx reason ( I won't say what as it will definitely offend someone but doing what we do for a living, a dark sense of humour is necessary to get through the day )

Colleague and I were crying with laughter , belly laughing , tears down our face laughing . My shit of an STBEXH has left me a week or so before and honestly in that moment I felt complete and utter joy,happiness and knew it was going to all be ok .

mbosco · 27/01/2022 23:24

All the time! Had one in the car yesterday - autistic dd was singing happily to herself, toddler ds chatting to me with so much enthusiasm. We were heading home and DH was going to stop work to have dinner together. It felt like this perfect, normal, beautiful moment where I had so much more than I thought life would ever have for me.

PutTheBathOnPlease · 27/01/2022 23:24

Its all relative. Mine was driving down the M6 from Tebay, past the Howgills (which are beautiful), listening to First Aid Kit’s “No Gold Can Stay”, and crying at being alive. I was back at work after a year off sick.

moocow123456 · 27/01/2022 23:25

When my 2nd Daughter was born.

I had been so ill throughout the pregnancy, developed epilepsy, had severe exhaustion. I was dreading meeting her as I couldn't bear the thought of looking after 2 children when I felt so horrific.

She was born and oh my god, the rush of love I felt was unbelievable. I suddenly felt a million times better. I was absolutely euphoric for about 3 months after.

She was born right at the beginning of the first lockdown and my partners work closed for 3 months so he had the 3 months off with me and our 2 girls. No visitors, no pressure of people coming to meet the baby, no one in the way when I was trying to learn to breastfeed!!

Best time of my life. I can still feel the euphoria when I think back to it.

BitcherOfBlakiven · 27/01/2022 23:26

The births of my DDs
Watching DNeph be born

An odd one, but - on a Monday morning, when I’d go visit my Great Grandmother in her care home, and I’d do her hair for her. She had Alzheimer’s, was extremely violent and required specialist care. Wouldn’t let anyone near her, scruffy isn’t the word for how she looked and it was so upsetting to see her like that. But every Monday she would sit for half an hour or so whilst I did her hair. Sometimes she’d be quiet, sometimes she would talk nonsense - but on the rare occasions she was lucid, they were beautiful moments between us.

When I open my sewing box that I was given from above mentioned GGM and it still smells like her.

When I stepped onto campus as a 33 year old single parent of 3. I’d known for months I was going but it didn’t feel real until that moment and it was such a long held, seemingly impossible goal. But there I was.

EezyOozy · 27/01/2022 23:26

Yes , often when I'm looking at the faces of my young children, or watching them absorbed in imaginary play and talking to themselves.

Theoldwrinkley · 27/01/2022 23:27

Vickles20.......the importance of a full stop. I had to read the first bit several times to figure out why the person you loved was the person sitting next to the bridegroom. I know this should be in pendants corner.

BitcherOfBlakiven · 27/01/2022 23:28

Watching my Grandmother with my children always blows me away too. They’ve had the same home since before I was born and I have photos of her holding me as a baby, and then my DDs as babies, in the same chair, in the same room.

FoamyBanana · 27/01/2022 23:28

Lots and lots of times, and usually very simple things. Usually outside and often linked to seeing/smelling/feeling things. It's like an overwhelming contentment and is lovely. Doesn't always last long and I go back to moaning about my kids leaving their shit everywhere or my train being late, but overall I think I am unbelievably lucky and that life is quite amazing!

Rocket1982 · 27/01/2022 23:28

White wafter rafting

Happymum12345 · 27/01/2022 23:29

Holding my children just after they were born. Pure happiness.

Ledkr · 27/01/2022 23:29

Finding out my cancer hadn't spread.
I was floating and telling everyone who would listen.
Still feel so lucky 26yrs later

Thisbastardcomputer · 27/01/2022 23:29

The day my only child was born, the feel I had achieved something momentous will stay with me forever