I can't get no, satisfaction?

[Mock Turtle]

Probably for me the most satisfied I have ever felt (mentally and physically) was after climbing the Matterhorn with a friend, with perhaps another as to traversing the Cuillin Ridge on Skye, even if such was over two days due to the heat - and done a few years earlier as preparation for any Alps trips. So a combination of sheer physicality and some skills in both cases. Possibly many others too but these two stand out.

I'm sure we all feel such things differently though so what are some of your life's highlights that stand out?

 

[bobhikes]

For me, its personal things, yes, I love being outdoors in nature and feel each experience in my soul while there but other than a general feeling of nature being great and a want to do it again, they don't stick with me. My wedding day was extremely satisfying and memorable, it was the culmination of many months of planning and went smoothly and happily. The birth of my sons again a lot of work to get to the point and then successful healthy births very satisfying. Thinking about it, I probably need some stress build up to release before I find something satisfying. When I plan a mountain hike or fishing excursion there is no stress beforehand only happiness, so I have no real stress before reaching the goal.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I'm sure we all feel such things differently though so what are some of your life's highlights that stand out?

Of the positive ones, jumping out of a plane with my daughter is probably at the top of the list, though right up are is watching my kids being born and being there for the birth of my granddaughter.

 

[ChristineM]

Long list, here are a few.

Helping a calf to be born (more than once)
Giving birth myself. An event that wasn't supposed to happen.
Earning our first million pounds.
The look on our lead artists face when we made him a millionaire after selling the company.
Eating fugu in Tokyo
Driving a pagani zonda R around the nurburgring.

 

[Vinayaka]

- Staring into the eyes of Boss, 5 times while she gave birth.
- Stepping out of the Bengaluru airport into the wonder that is Motherland. I knelt and touched the ground.
- Meeting my Guru, for the first time.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Helping a calf to be born (more than once)

Reincarnation?

 

[ChristineM]

Reincarnation?

Nope different cows.
My bad, it should have read helping calfs to be born

 

[SalixIncendium]

Nope different cows.
My bad, it should have read helping calfs to be born

I knew what you meant, but the way I'm wired went straight to the same calf being born multiple times.

 

[ChristineM]

I knew what you meant, but the way I'm wired went straight to the same calf being born multiple times.

I can now see how it could be read like that, i should have been more precise in my post.

 

[Rival]

I taught myself to be widely read.

 

[JustGeorge]

I don't have any major events... While I was very happy to see my children born, I always found the experience a little traumatic. (Probably due to hormone crashes that were always scary for me.)

I pinned my husband twice in a group full of friends. It was playing, but thrilled everyone(especially our kid that wouldn't go to bed)except him. I'm much smaller, so it was unexpected.

The night the attic went nuts, perhaps. That was a mind boggling experience, and began the journey of me kicking the trash from my home, despite my spouse's apprehension.

Putting in my two weeks, though the leaving date was a little more sad... one of my coworkers was upset, and I rocked him like a baby in the recliner(though he was much bigger than me). The workplace was abnormally close due to the nature of the job.

 

[JustGeorge]

I taught myself to be widely read.

How'd you do it?

 

[Rival]

How'd you do it?

I always believed that old things often had more value than new, where people in my age range believed the opposite. So I ended up reading some cultural treasures like Wuthering Heights, Dickens, Chaucer, Lolita, lots of poetry from different eras, the Quran, and so on.

I also followed teachers' advice and read some source material.

 

[Spice]

I have walked in some very dark paths trying to provide a little light, and I have also had some very strong shadows try to snuff out my light. I have fought back without going to jail or the morgue. I have also walked in the light of others and have not been blinded -- at least not permanently.

 

[Debater Slayer]

- Having a loving, good family and circle of close friends and spending time with either.

Last year, I was hanging out with a close friend, and we had spent a few hours together. We were both sitting in a coffee shop and went silent, but it didn't feel awkward at all. We both just got lost in thought for half a minute or so and then looked at each other. She smiled. I felt a mutual, palpable spark then, so I said, "So, how do you feel right this moment?" She said, "Good. Very, very good!"

I felt the same way and strongly suspected she did too, hence my question. That kind of time with people I care about gives me a lot of satisfaction.

- Finishing university after a major setback. I felt that I had overcome one of my biggest personal setbacks when I did.

 

[Alien826]

Difficult to pick one from a very long life. I'll go with the days I passed the private pilot flight test and later the instrument rating. Yes that's two not one, but the feeling was about the same. Becoming a pilot was something I dreamed about since childhood.

High Flight​

By John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

 

[PureX]

When I was a young man and student working on a fine art degree in college, some bigwig college administrator got the idea in his head that the art students were not well-read or literate enough for his liking. And his solution was to impose class requirements for the fine art students to take in the literature department. Which the fine art students were very happy to do, as they were very curious and creative folks by nature.

One of the professors in my area of fine arts (sculpture) became curious, himself, to see if his students were in fact somewhat "illiterate". So for his upcoming weekly critiques, he had all the students write out their criticism for each other's artworks that were being presented for critique that week. And then lay the written text next to the artwork, unsigned, for the artist of that work to read aloud. And then, as per usual, the group would discuss the criticisms, together.

And the results were AMAZING! Some students wrote very clever limericks, some wrote little allegorical short stories. Some wrote a single line that cut right to the quick. Some even wrote a single, very well chosen word. And it was clear to anyone present that the art students in that school were not only highly literate, but wildly clever and creative, besides. And not only that, the literature department professors were having a great time with all these art students in their poetry, creative writing, and classic literature classes. Not only were the art students not illiterate, but they raised the level of creativity in the literature classes they were attending to everyone's joy.

One of the most satisfying, interesting, and meaningful times in my life were the years I spent in that fantastic undergraduate art college, with all those amazingly intelligent and creative students and professors. Many of us are still friends after all these (5) decades later. The single greatest blessing in my life was finding my "tribe" in this world, and being taken in as a valued member among them. I know this is something that a lot of people never really get to experience in life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

 

[mangalavara]

Probably for me the most satisfied I have ever felt (mentally and physically) was after climbing the Matterhorn with a friend

Wow! That would perhaps be most satisfying for me, too.

The look on our lead artists face when we made him a millionaire after selling the company.

I love that!

 

[mangalavara]

I felt the same way and strongly suspected she did too, hence my question. That kind of time with people I care about gives me a lot of satisfaction.

You sound like a genuine, true, and very good friend. Your close friend that you mentioned above is fortunate to know you.

 

[mangalavara]

I'm sure we all feel such things differently though so what are some of your life's highlights that stand out?

Being the first person in my family to obtain a passport was very satisfying.

Leaving my hometown and state on an airliner was deeply satisfying.

Finishing university after a major setback. I felt that I had overcome one of my biggest personal setbacks when I did.

That is admirable considering that finishing a degree is hard enough.

Finishing my bachelor’s degree—and being the first person in my family to earn an academic degree—was one of my most satisfying experiences that I have had.