What have you personally found to be the greatest experience in life?

[paulk@writing.exchange]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Seeing a ray of light (literally) at a very difficult point in life that made me decide to go on.

[watarutenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@Colman Maybe, but the trends so far are interesting

[discobeez@mas.to]

@WataruTenkawa_1 I think it changes all through life. While they're small, having children is probably the hardest thing I've ever done. A few years later, I can see how I might someday think of it as the greatest.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@kinsale42 [Googling extensively]

[ericg@beige.party]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Shedding ego (or at least attempting to do so)

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@WataruTenkawa_1 That moment when you’ve parried, countered, or voided the incoming blade, in such a way that your touch is inevitable, as the universe hold still for it.

Can also happen with the ocean, the mountain, and/or the stars.

[jayalane@mastodon.online]

@WataruTenkawa_1 @Colman maybe but I find a mind set of trying to rank order experiences deflates the experience and causes me to miss the juicy core of the experience. Still an interesting survey.

[irisfreundin@troet.cafe]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Becoming so old as I am unexpectedly.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@WataruTenkawa_1 I can't remember. I think I've experienced all of these things, but they've all been taken away as well. I am ambivalent towards life.

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Hanging out and enjoying great food and drink with good friends.

Hey don't look at me like that, I'm an Epicurean. Please don't make me choose.

[magpieluvseeds@mastodon.social]

@WataruTenkawa_1 working really hard at a difficult thing and seeing yourself improve.

Also, helping someone grasp a concept or learn a skill and seeing the pride on their face when they “get it”

[jbeanz@mastodon.online]

@WataruTenkawa_1
Fleeting moments of great, mass human synchronicity.

[evelinesulman@akademienl.social]

@WataruTenkawa_1 hesitating between the defense of my dissertation and becoming a grandmother...

[owen_g_richards@writing.exchange]

@WataruTenkawa_1

OTHER: as in there has been no single thing that has been the greatest experience in life.

So many things on the list apply and things like "the inordinate amount of luck" required to find your soul mate (who happened to be half a world away), to find a "home" in a new town where friends are worthy of such titles, to live in a locale that satisfies virtually all the requirements for a healthy, happy life have been overlooked.

[hikergeek@mas.to]

@Colman @WataruTenkawa_1

I agree it seems like a weird way to think.

All of the above producing the greatest experience should be a choice.

[qccechris@mastodon.social]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Can we define what it means to be greatest? so greatest experience has a meaningful connection to the response given.

[jorsh@beige.party]

@WataruTenkawa_1

Learning.

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@WataruTenkawa_1
Sitting in a hammock in nature taking in all the sounds and smells.

[thedonsielass@mas.to]

@WataruTenkawa_1 Learning things, being outside

[konosocio@mastodon.online]

@WataruTenkawa_1 having experienced all that and finding yourself a more mature, experienced, different (but also the same) person on the other side of it.