Your ultimate life affirming moment.

[Togakure]

Past:
Being awarded the last slot on the program for my senior (piano) recital in the MTAC (Music Teachers of California) program, and performing Chopin's Ballade in G Minor well, to the appreciation about of 300 of Sacramento's most talented and dedicated musicians and instructors, at the Crocker Art Gallery back when I was 19 years old. Seeing the joy on my teacher's and mother's faces, and the admiration in my younger brother's face, and even a little respect my father's normally stoic expression. This was the culminating event in about a dozen years of daily practice and annual recitals.

Present:
To lie down to sleep at night and be able to smile, knowing that I made it through another productive, instructive, and enjoyable day, and knowing that I have True friends and family.

Future:
To know--rather than choose to believe--the nature of "things," of myself and my place in "the world," and to understand the reason/purpose of my life. Some have purportedly achieved this; I envy them.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

New found glory

Shiver...

[Kanamori]

I would imagine the most life affirming moment, however depressing it may be, would be the moment before death.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Or the moment before you come into the world?

Not depressing just a tad gross to think of...

[GoreBag]

Most life-affirming moment? Well, I felt pretty good after my conversion about two autumns ago. Also, I feel alive when there is heavy, wet snow hanging off the pines, or when the cool autumn wind pulls at my beard.

Not to sound ironic or dark, but I think the most life-affirming moment that I could ever experience would be dying in either of the above circumstances..ideally from an axe or sword wound.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Past: Watching Pink Floyd on TV in Live 8'
Enjoying Munich on the last day I was there, in the Mariamplatz.

In English, we got assaigned that we needed to do a mock trial (im in mock trail too so it's good practice), it was whether Odysseus was a bad leader, and no one wants to be odysseus, so guess who gets him? Me. Hardest part, but when I took the stand, I realized that if I do my best I cannot lose. And I didn't. Hung Jury, we have the trail again next week.

The thing with that is, our performance was so good that the school is MAKING us do a retrail so they can observe it and the like. And supposedly I had some of the best answers for my questioning, even though I did conceed to sleeping around and losing faith in my men.

Present: Listening to Wilder Wien, Staring at my recently adjusted screen, thinking "Damn...I understand this"
Future: Coming in 1st in Student Congress