Breathless moments

From the movie "Hitch":
"Life isn't about the number of breaths you take, but living in the moments that take your breath away."

What are some moments of your life that you can distinctly freeze-frame in your memory and call that a point that "took your breath away?"

Do share.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

No fair not leading by example, shouldn't be allowed to do that, cheater. ;p

I dunno really, I've seen some messed up things, I'm sure most breathless moments have been out of shock or disgust. I know there's some nasty smells that make me breathless as well. ;p

The occasional theme park ride (occasional being once every 5 years or so) might leave me a little stunned, but that's about it.

There's some times that didn't shock me at the time they happened, but do so in retrospect. But those are just plain.....weird.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's probably cheesy/corny/all of the above, but the first time my boyfriend said the word 'love' to me.

And when I got my first glimpse of the Wii. A beautiful moment right there.

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I can only really think of one moment where I just couldn't say anything, no matter how hard I tried.

The first time I heard my girlfriend tell me that she loved me, I really couldn't reply =/. I felt kind of bad, but it really took my breath away. After a bit of time though, I was able to mumble out that I loved her too very quitely.

Other than that, the only other times I remember being breathless was in my dreams where I'm running away from something/someone trying to kill me and I can yell or call out for help .

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, receiving $30 from my distant grandmother was a recent one. I honestly didn't expect that.

I rode the Gemini at Ceder Point about five years back, and it was my first experience with rollercoasters. I'll never forget that one. I've since rode on many others since, but this first time is always the one that stands out in my mind. Quite a trip (at the time anyway).

Getting my Sega Genesis when I was nine is probably the biggest breathless moment that I can recall. It was something I had wanted quite badly at the time, and to come home from school and have Sonic The Hedgehog in the living room after school as a surprise one day is really some magic moment in my life.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Qube

No fair not leading by example, shouldn't be allowed to do that, cheater. ;p

Agreed. I apologize about that, dinner was being served right as I was typing the opening and I couldn't tell my father "later" when we're serving traditional new years eve dinner. :P

So yeah... example. I have two memories both packed on one day. It's one month after I met my current boyfriend; at this point we've well established that we like each other quite well. So on this day we went out on a date. He had class in the morning, so he stops by in the morning before class and drops off a bouquet of beautiful rose ensemble.
Couple hours later after all his classes are done, we go up driving in Palos Verdes and he shows me some areas and landmarks where he grew up as a child. He takes me to this one church he used to go as a child, guides me towards what would be the backyard of the church, and the view from up above was the entire Los Angeles South Bay peninsula. It was sort of a chilly crisp day with moderate wind, so the air was clear and free of smog and the sight was absolutely beautiful. As I stood there I felt/wished as if time would stop, knowing that what I had with the person hugging me as I watched the beautiful view was going to be something special.

...Soppy story, I know. :blush:

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meeting my girlfriend, now my wife, for the first time. as moe from the 3 stooges once said "you coulda knocked me down with a handful a peanuts, without the shells"

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Only when something has just scared the shit out of me usually. Apart from that, the first night I met my boyfriend with friends of ours (strange how only him and myself didn't know each other) and we were all watching a movie, with him sitting right next to me. I felt breathless the whole time until he had to leave. Discovering how much he had spent on me during our trip to London also was quite breathtaking (as was the trip itself).

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

My brother punched me in the stomach just as I was breathing out, does that count?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Putting all the love stories aside, I was left breathless when I received my income tax return money for 2005 last year.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Kissing my girlfriend for the first time.
It was just waiting to happen....we were just standing around talking random chit chat that didn't go anywhere, so I just went up to her, held her shoulders and kissed her.
Just...wow.

Coming a close second....
Seeing Zelda: Twilight Princess' (before it was given a name) first trailer waay back in E3 2004.
Fuckin oath......!!!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Hmm, back in 1999 there was a girl I thought, at the time, I was in love with. Looking back it was a sort of puppy love. Anyhow, it was a sunny day and we were riding home in the bus when she said something really sweet as she sat next to me and I turned my head to look at her and we just kind of stared at eachother for what seemed like eternity but was really a good five seconds. The way the sun gently splashed across her pretty face and the way the sun accented the lovely auburn color of her hair. I wanted to tell her a million things but I never said anything. I wish I had kissed her, but the moment ended when I looked away embarassed. Whatever it was she had told me is now forgotten, I have a great memory but the moment following it pretty much knocked me out mentally for a while.

When I was in prison and Lenore finally sent me some pictures of my six-month old daughter. I hadn't talked to Lenore on the phone for three months at that point but when I got that letter and saw my little girl's sweet little face I called Lenore right away so I could at least hear my kids. It was just that at that moment I knew I'd do anything, even die, for her with no second thought.

A couple of weeks ago. I was sitting on a couch with a girl I had met earlier. A very ideal girl, and I was holding her tight and we were playing with eachothers hands. It was special because we really did bond that single day and it also had value because it was the first time since prison, since Lenore, that I could be affectionate that way with someone. And even though I'm drugged out now, even if I'm fucked, it's moments like these that remind me I'm a big fucking teddy bear and I love to love and be loved but all too often I let life, my past, and all sorts of anger and bitterness turn me into someone else.

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Going to an interview for one of the best designing colleges back in Taiwan. It was a small room with 8 professors interviewing myself alone, and they wanted me to do the introduction in both English and Mandarin (was somewhat unexpected lol). I was breathless the whole time until like an hour or so later I found out that I was accepted. Joy to the world!

I was speaking idiomatically.

When my girlfriend asked me to marry her :$ it completely took me off my feet, a slightly grizzled worm could of knocked me down. That or the moment when I realised that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by deadsky

When my girlfriend asked me to marry her :$ it completely took me off my feet, a slightly grizzled worm could of knocked me down. That or the moment when I realised that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her

Thats cool, but isnt it usually the other way around?

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Originally Posted by Hydelloon

Thats cool, but isnt it usually the other way around?

Not necessarily. We can ask too. Just because society shapes to make us think that men should ask the question, doesn't change the fact that she might be the one who realized she wants to be together with him before he even realized it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Didn't mean to offend you, Shorty ^_^

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The first day at high school. The first time I told a girl I liked her. The first day of my first job. The first time I had to deal with a situation that was more than I was trained for... and did OK.

Mostly the first time I met my girlfriend. Like Devo I hooked up with my current partner online first. Meeting in the flesh was an entirely memorable and entirely breathtaking experience. For all the right reasons.

Getting off the plane into New York City... 3000 miles from home. That's pretty breathtaking. Standing on the observation deck of the Empire State Building too.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Hydelloon

Thats cool, but isnt it usually the other way around?

To be honest I think we both knew, she just asked me first

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When I went to Japan, and it finally hit me. When I got off the plane after my nice long 12 or however many hours flight and while I was on the bullet train it still all felt fairly normal, but then when I exited Kyoto Station, the Kyoto Tower was standing right in front of me and the masses of taxi ranks, and I could just about glimpse the entrance to the ryokan we were staying in, and it all just sunk in that I was actually in Japan. I'm pretty sure I must've just stood like the gaping tourist I was for about 10,15 minutes, trying to believe I was there

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When I was 10, I was living in this apartment complex with my mom and stepdad. I heard screaming from the neighbors apartment and then a loud banging on our front door. I hid in the kitchen staring at the door thinking some guy was going to break through and beat the shit out of me.

Turned out his girlfriend was kicking him out of the apartment and he wanted us to call the cops for him

I'd also be breathless while listening to arguments at night between my step dad and mom, ears straining to hear who would win the insult onslaught.

When I went up to my dorm room with this girl who I thought was interested in dating me, and I suggest we go watch a movie, we get up there and I turn around and she starts making out with me out of nowhere. My first kiss FTW. ; ;

Watching the FF7 intro cinema for the first time, many years ago. OMG FANBOY ALERT.

K I'm done.

I was speaking idiomatically.

We arrived at a park reserve in Kenya on an unclear day, so distant Kilimanjaro was invisible. I sort of had an image in my head of how high it would be - there was a long thin cloud in the distance which I could just imagine being about the right height of the mountains snow cap.

Anyway, later on we were talking to one of the guides and he mentions that Kilimanjaro was visible, so I look, still at the height of that cloud - couldn't see shit. Eventually he has to point, and I find my eyes craning upwards - Holy Shit. There it is, the snow cap, at least twice the height I imagined it would be. That was breathless. I couldn't stop looking its way for the rest of our stay there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

For a bit of variety, when I found I got into the college that I did. So excited/dead to the world that there's actually a blank where the first 5 seconds after I found out should be.

Certain epiphanies I get. Several musical moments that would be really boring to talk about. Also when I found out my best friend offed himself. And the usual romantic stuff too, of course.

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