Are you alive?
 

A question I often ask myself is, "Are you alive?".

So my questions for you today is:

You asked me this a few days ago.
I've been thinking about it.
I don't know if I ever have felt alive, I've never felt like anything is real or living.
Maybe, it's just me but I really can't think of a time when I felt 'alive'.

I only ever feel alive when i sh makes me feel human again. So 2 days ago now.

I feel alive when I feel connected with myself and other people. Like when my therapist supports me back to myself again, and when I'm chatting with colleagues at work, or I manage to help a customer at work and they're grateful. I also feel alive when I have a creative focus and inspiration to carry that.

I don't remember the last time I felt truly alive. I feel like I'm not real too much of the time at the moment!

Um, this is an amazing question.

I don't know.
It's when I laugh or am having fun and I forget about all of the stuff that ruins my day to day life I suppose?

It's when I forget about 'what' I have become and I just 'do'.
Then, it crashes down and I remember what it's really like.

What about you hun? xxxxx

The last time I truly felt 'alive' (meaning 'happy') was in January this year. This was a time I remember laughing with friends, having a really fun time...

Now all I can see is depression, blood and cutting.

:(

The last time I felt alive was so long ago I cant remember... =(

Midsummer. No particular reason except from the fact there's life in the air on that day.

July second, two thousand and eight

Page Pond =]

I can't say any more than that, but it had nothing to do with SI.

i only feel alive when i'm on stage....when i'm not me.

I don't know if I feel alive, but in a way I feel not "out-of-it" when I'm in the NICU holding the babies. When I can sooth them and make them stop crying just by talking and holding/rocking them the right way.
I feel more or less alive when I'm do trampoline.

When I'm cutting.

The last time I felt alive when I was at my prom, June 25th.
I was with people I love, I was having fun and I wasn't worrying about anything.
Maybe we should do more things that make us feel alive. As long as they aren't things that can damage us.

Last night, in a room full of people who actually cared about one another and I felt I had a place

This, for whatever reason, struck me as one of the most beautiful statements I have ever read.

And to the OP, I agree. We should all do more things that make us feel alive without the danger or damage.

I don't know... I think maybe when I talked to one of my best friends on the phone a few days ago. He's like a brother to me, and it meant so much to hear his voice.

depends, when i die i will tell if i felt alive

July 18, 2007.
That's the night my ex-boyfriend and I got together.
I haven't felt any kind of love like I did back then.
I'm dead inside; numb if you will.
The only thing that keeps me feeling is anxiety.
I hate living sometimes.

whenever i look at the stars with the person i love.
they seem to give reassurance that it will all be okay

The last time I felt alive...

I don't remember the date, but it was raining, and for a moment, there were only two people in the world, me and the boy whose lips seem to mold perfectly to mine.