Your most peaceful moment on this planet

[JDHoss]

For me it's fishing or just sitting on the beach watching the waves roll in. The beaches here aren't crowded and on most days there isn't anyone within 200 ft of us. Love surf casting, fishing the jetty and lagoon or walking through one of the preserve parks and flipping worms and flukes for bass in the small canals and holes while keeping an eye out for gators.

 

[wildcatwelder_rivals]

Being out on the lake as the sun is just coming up, having a nice buzz and bass fishing.

 

[Deeeefense]

Looking out over the Grand Canyon. It can really take your breath away.

 

[Backer cutter]

It aint so cool bein’ a jive turkey this close to Thanksgiving.

You really don’t know what you’re missing, unless you’re just not into nature, which is ok. But if you are, give it a try sometime if you can. Remember sitting high upon a wooded ridge with my son, who was maybe 8 years old, before daylight on a cool spring morning, listening to the turkeys. One of my best moments ever. Halies Comet was visable, and it was a great time.

 

[TurnipDaBeet]

Turkey huntin is cool.

Im all about them Chukars

 

[Backer cutter]

Turkey huntin is cool.

Im all about them Chukars

Hey I’m all about Foul period

 

[Nuke99m.]

Sitting on a lake in Manitoba with 6 peop!e within 100 miles of me.

 

[BernieSadori]

Ranger School, Mountain phase, had a short break, noticed I could look out over the clouds and surrounding mountains. During extreme stress, to have that moment where I felt at peace with God and knew he would get me through that period of life.

I know you, right?

 

[NewEraCATS]

middle of the desert in Kuwait, middle of the night. Zero light pollution, minimum people around. Clear sky that showed more stars than I could've imagined.

 

[_ukcat]

When I lost my virginity

 

[Catman100]

On an aircraft carrier as soon as there was a break in flight ops, to be able to find a quiet place on the flight deck and look at the sun going down into the ocean. Peaceful as hell considering the environment.

 

[Spica Orbit]

New Mexico. On a ridge along the NE side of the White Sands Missile Range. My cell phone couldn't find a single tower to connect to.....It was wonderful.

 

[420grover]

Bungee jumping. Everything was just totally silent as I was falling.

 

[numberonedad]

Sitting on our back porch, watching the Deer and staring at the Blue Ridge Mountains

 

[Canned Heat]

Laurel Lake , boat in campground, holly bay, midnight cat fishing, no cell service , no worries

 

[Tinker Dan]

Topside of the USNS Tanner, midnight and in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitch black save for the blanket of stars from horizon-to-horizon.

We were a oceanographic survey operation, with an extremely small crew and always operated independently from any other vessels.

I was topside on the helo deck with my future bride. The engines dropped offline for some reason.

Nothing but dead silence, the stars and the woman I loved.

Shakespeare would not be able to adequately describe that brief instant in time.

 

[bluthruandthru]

Taking a crap on a bucket on the high seas with the sun coming up after a long night of hauling fishing gear.

 

[chroix]

Interesting that almost every single one of these required a lot of hard work to get to that place. Lots of different locales but lots of similarities in the effort to get there.

 

[ThwKentuckyKid]

In Portland protesting with my brethren, I lit a building on fire. I was very peaceful.

 

[jauk11]

Take boat to lake, anchor down, throw inner tube out, hop on, tie foot to boat, tie floating cooler to inner tube, drink a 6 pack and stare at the sky.

Which part of the sky? Decisions, decisions.

 

[WayneDougan_rivals170043]

I always found Christmas Eve - after the presents were out and the kids were in bed - was extremely quiet and peaceful.

 

[lex cath]

Doing shots of tequila with my wife in the shower

 

[funKYcat75]

Doing shots of tequila with my wife in the shower

Careful. You all could slip in there, or even worse, get water in your glass.

 

[80 Proof]

Many of my regular zen moments are like the ones mentioned above while hunting or fishing.

The one moment when I felt most at peace....

Two buddies and I where in Estes Park, Colorado for a couple of weeks circa 2000. We spent a good amount of that time fly fishing. We found a beautiful valley with several branches of a stream running through it and came up with a plan. We started fishing one end at daybreak with plans to meet at a hump halfway through for lunch. We toked up and hit the water. Once we got to the meeting place and ate, one of the guys pulled out some mushrooms. We ate those, rolled up a doobie, and looked out at the valley to see a herd of elk grazing where we planned to fish that afternoon. Probably 200 of them. We just sat there and enjoyed it all for a couple of hours, none of us said a word.

I felt closer to God at that moment than any other moment not counting the birth of my children. It was certainly more peaceful.

 

[chroix]

Many of my regular zen moments are like the ones mentioned above while hunting or fishing.

The one moment when I felt most at peace....

Two buddies and I where in Estes Park, Colorado for a couple of weeks circa 2000. We spent a good amount of that time fly fishing. We found a beautiful valley with several branches of a stream running through it and came up with a plan. We started fishing one end at daybreak with plans to meet at a hump halfway through for lunch. We toked up and hit the water. Once we got to the meeting place and ate, one of the guys pulled out some mushrooms. We ate those, rolled up a doobie, and looked out at the valley to see a herd of elk grazing where we planned to fish that afternoon. Probably 200 of them. We just sat there and enjoyed it all for a couple of hours, none of us said a word.

I felt closer to God at that moment than any other moment not counting the birth of my children. It was certainly more peaceful.

Big Thompson never lets you down. Hard fishing but damn it’s beautiful out there.

 

[UKGrad93]

Scuba diving or fishing at a lake on a summer afternoon are near the top. But I'm gonna go with taking a nap on the couch while holding my infant daughter on my chest. Pure bliss hearing her breathe and feeling her heartbeat.