Moments of Magic

[Fred Sailor]

Do you still experience moments of magic?

The magic of a childhood Christmas... The first time a girl/guy looked you in the eyes and smiled...Watching the starry night sky with a loved one...The endless possibilities of a theme park...The roller coaster ride...Late night adventures with friends...
Moments like these where you are fully immersed in the beautiful experience of life. I'm left reminiscing at these moments that will never come back and feeling like the magic I once felt has faded into emptiness.
I would love to hear about your recent or distant moments that sparked that feeling in you and maybe we can relive each others memories.

 

[WornOutLife]

I only experience magic when I drink alcohol.
@BluesRunTheGame knows what I mean lol

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

No never I am completely flat now.

 

[FuneralCry]

I forgot that people actually felt things at all.

 

[itsallover]

I didn't realize it then but when I was healthy with a career and a social life, now that was pure bliss.

 

[Fred Sailor]

I didn't realize it then but when I was healthy with a career and a social life, now that was pure bliss.

We seem to normalize our current situation to be ground zero, just how it is, taking it for granted. Which could be why good times don't feel as good when you're actually in them, while depression feels like inevitable reality when in it.

 

[BluesRunTheGame]

I only experience magic when I drink alcohol.
@BluesRunTheGame knows what I mean lol

Oh hell yeah. I can feel some magic moments coming tomorrow night

 

[WornOutLife]

Oh hell yeah. I can feel some magic moments coming tomorrow night

You'd better get wasted on Saturday too!
I wanna go to the general chat with you and talk random stuff again. It was awesome.

 

[BluesRunTheGame]

You'd better get wasted on Saturday too!
I wanna go to the general chat with you and talk random stuff again. It was awesome.

Sorry bro family day on Sunday gotta be straight by then.

 

[Superdeterminist]

For me the most magical moments have always been when I start crushing on someone. The feeling is just so euphoric it's like a drug. Nothing else has given me such a good feeling.

 

[avoid_slow_death]

Not for a few weeks now. Still had moments like that here and there before that, but, now everything just is the same to me. Just.....there.

 

[GarageKarate07]

It can be hard to feel those things when you feel like you have been in a dark place for such a long time. I saw a baby snake and moved it away from the road. The magic was there. It was very easy to find without looking. Then it gets dark and it's hard to see those things or even "want" those things again. It's a pain in the ass.

 

[BluesRunTheGame]

For me the most magical moments have always been when I start crushing on someone. The feeling is just so euphoric it's like a drug. Nothing else has given me such a good feeling.

Oh yeah I get this too. Until they introduce me to their boyfriend or suggest going on Tinder

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Probably, but they happen so infrequently that I often can't remember.

Here's one that didn't happen to me, but I witnessed this moment live when it happened a few years ago:

 

[BigNarkoleptic]

Do you still experience moments of magic?

The magic of a childhood Christmas... The first time a girl/guy looked you in the eyes and smiled...Watching the starry night sky with a loved one...The endless possibilities of a theme park...The roller coaster ride...Late night adventures with friends...
Moments like these where you are fully immersed in the beautiful experience of life. I'm left reminiscing at these moments that will never come back and feeling like the magic I once felt has faded into emptiness.
I would love to hear about your recent or distant moments that sparked that feeling in you and maybe we can relive each others memories.

perhaps, magic, is also physics

 

[Undefined]

Never had any experiences of that sort, romantic or otherwise. I'm too ugly and borderline deformed for anything involving meaningful social interaction

 

[AE2021]

When I met my dog at the shelter 8 years ago. It was magic. I had visited other dogs and didn't feel a connection. The shelter worker had to trick me into giving him back at the end of the visit. I had been sitting there with him in my lap for way too long. But he wouldn't get down and I didn't really try to make him. So she got clever and brought me an adoption application and kind of swooped in and grabbed him while I was reaching for the application. I was so instantaneously in love.....

 

[bluedreamscape]

Yes, I still can feel extreme pleasure by looking up at the sky, at sunsets... it's such a shame. I don't have the bandwith to work a job I dislike but otherwise could still enjoy life.

 

[the_final_countdown]

I just want to die. Too much, constant, overwhelming pain that just gets worse. Never stops. Never feels good. Can't work like this. Don't want to live like this.

 

[Fred Sailor]

When I met my dog at the shelter 8 years ago. It was magic. I had visited other dogs and didn't feel a connection. The shelter worker had to trick me into giving him back at the end of the visit. I had been sitting there with him in my lap for way too long. But he wouldn't get down and I didn't really try to make him. So she got clever and brought me an adoption application and kind of swooped in and grabbed him while I was reaching for the application. I was so instantaneously in love.....

Sounds like pure bliss. Thanks for sharing!

 

[itsallover]

We seem to normalize our current situation to be ground zero, just how it is, taking it for granted. Which could be why good times don't feel as good when you're actually in them, while depression feels like inevitable reality when in it.

I did not like the grind of working complete with the whole hassle of getting back and forth everyday plus all the late nights and work on the weekends, but when you can't do anything due to health reasons you lose everything.

 

[GarageKarate07]

I did not like the grind of working complete with the whole hassle of getting back and forth everyday plus all the late nights and work on the weekends, but when you can't do anything due to health reasons you lose everything.

Yes. The world does not care for people who no longer "contribute". After a persons health fails they are already dead. An individual life means shit in this world. Even to friends and "family" who would swear an unspoken oath to protect and love and cherish you for all your days. Old people in old folks homes. These are our elders? This is how we treat the first/older generations of our own families? This is disgusting.

 

[Meditation guide]

My magical moments have been at the ocean and out in nature. I also get a lot of validation from my work.

I think of the times in the ocean when the fish were friendly and expressive, as odd at that may sound. Or the times out by myself at night and stopping and laying on the hood of my car watching the shooting stars. Being out in the big swamp at night with millions of frogs singing, and the stars overhead. There was nothing else in the world but the frogs, the water, and the stars. It looked endless in all directions no matter where you looked. Pure magic. It was breathtaking beauty.

 

[Birthinjune]

Do you still experience moments of magic?

The magic of a childhood Christmas... The first time a girl/guy looked you in the eyes and smiled...Watching the starry night sky with a loved one...The endless possibilities of a theme park...The roller coaster ride...Late night adventures with friends...
Moments like these where you are fully immersed in the beautiful experience of life. I'm left reminiscing at these moments that will never come back and feeling like the magic I once felt has faded into emptiness.
I would love to hear about your recent or distant moments that sparked that feeling in you and maybe we can relive each others memories.

I'm fairly childlike and open, I felt that awe a lot.
My partner that recently committed suicide was literally all magic. Now I can't imagine enjoying a moment of it, even if it's right in front of me, because I can't share it with him.
All of the beautiful things in life aren't here anymore, just an absence.
My biggest fear is that to cope with this trauma my mind will start forgetting while getting numb, and then I won't feel anything anymore. I'll live out a life without joy or love or magic as I wait to die.

A recent moment, one of the last nights we spent together he played me a song he recorded for me. When it finished he turned around and told me he really loved me and he was crying. I felt all the pain and love and longing and everything that was our relationship this life and the ones before and the ones after in that song and I felt like my heart was going to burst

 

[Fred Sailor]

My magical moments have been at the ocean and out in nature. I also get a lot of validation from my work.

I think of the times in the ocean when the fish were friendly and expressive, as odd at that may sound. Or the times out by myself at night and stopping and laying on the hood of my car watching the shooting stars. Being out in the big swamp at night with millions of frogs singing, and the stars overhead. There was nothing else in the world but the frogs, the water, and the stars. It looked endless in all directions no matter where you looked. Pure magic. It was breathtaking beauty.

Yes. I can definitely draw similar parallels from my own memory. One night in the fall of 2016 I found myself alone in a swamp in the dead of night.(I was in the military watching a sightline 500 meters from our camp)
I remember feeling a sort of serenity, being one with the moment. The scent most of all really captured me.
Years later, when my grandma came back from picking mushrooms or berries by the swamp, I once again caught that same marshland scent and for a brief moment I was taken back to that night years ago.

 

[Meditation guide]

I remember feeling a sort of serenity, being one with the moment. The scent most of all really captured me.

I know the scent you are talking about. Thank you for reminding me. The place where endless sky, water and earth meet on a warm night has a delicious earth/grass/water scent.

 

[Fred Sailor]

I'm fairly childlike and open, I felt that awe a lot.
My partner that recently committed suicide was literally all magic. Now I can't imagine enjoying a moment of it, even if it's right in front of me, because I can't share it with him.
All of the beautiful things in life aren't here anymore, just an absence.
My biggest fear is that to cope with this trauma my mind will start forgetting while getting numb, and then I won't feel anything anymore. I'll live out a life without joy or love or magic as I wait to die.

A recent moment, one of the last nights we spent together he played me a song he recorded for me. When it finished he turned around and told me he really loved me and he was crying. I felt all the pain and love and longing and everything that was our relationship this life and the ones before and the ones after in that song and I felt like my heart was going to

I'm fairly childlike and open, I felt that awe a lot.
My partner that recently committed suicide was literally all magic. Now I can't imagine enjoying a moment of it, even if it's right in front of me, because I can't share it with him.
All of the beautiful things in life aren't here anymore, just an absence.
My biggest fear is that to cope with this trauma my mind will start forgetting while getting numb, and then I won't feel anything anymore. I'll live out a life without joy or love or magic as I wait to die.

A recent moment, one of the last nights we spent together he played me a song he recorded for me. When it finished he turned around and told me he really loved me and he was crying. I felt all the pain and love and longing and everything that was our relationship this life and the ones before and the ones after in that song and I felt like my heart was going to burst

Thank you for sharing. I find myself at a loss for words, I have never experienced such a grave sense of loss that you describe.
All I can say is I wish you find the right support to help and let your soul and mind heal with time. You may yet rediscover the magic you once knew.

 

[Symbiote]

You meant curses right? Magic is usually good things, for me that only happens in dreams or whatever my mind wishes it could see by conjuring it up in my thoughts. Curses, would be more apt since I experience those on a weekly basis, if not daily. I fuck up somewhere and it leads to consequences, nothing magical about it.