what makes you feel ''empowered''

i used to feel empowered when i was on my motorcycle....and when i worked onstage at a large rock concert.....and when people at the bar found out the bartender was my girlfriend....and when i was a kid and dressed up in cowboy gear...very empowering....

what gives you that empowered feeling?

 

I feel empowered when my dog is with me...he's very well trained, absolutely handsome, healthy, badassed, aloof, very tall, wolfy, intelligent...etc. He is how he looks. It feels good to have a friend like him and I trained him. He's the hardest dog I have ever trained so I guess I'm kinda proud of that.

 

dressing up in ... eh' you know the drill... speaking of drilling..

 

That's funny, because I feel empowered when I am riding my bike with my motorcycle gloves and black shades.

 

Nothing recently.....

 

When I make my girlie feel really good.

 

When I know that I AM; then I AM Empowered.

 

when i fix things for people, appliances or plumbing or etc +
when i talk shit one-on-one with somebody at a party +
when i sing with friends +
meeting somebody new +
when i get drunk +

i will think of more, there are so many good ones!
feeling empowered is one of the greatest feelings, easily!! i love it

 

in a former life i used to handle a lot of very good drugs.......back 30 years it was way easy to be the only one in the area with a great connection...i was the king for a while....very very empowering

 

This may or may not be interesting:

To be "empowered" someone must give or delegate power to you.

That's a little different than being "in power".

 

Walking around during the summer with my shirt off knowing I look good


hotwater

 

i think of it generally as giving power to yourself

 

yes teacher you are correct...the key word in your post is ''be''..the key word in my title is ''feel'''



so you guessed that when i thought i was the marshal of my town playing cowboys as a kid...that no one actually made me marshal?...i beg to differ....we chose with a good old fashioned gunfight in the center of town

....i was and am skinny so i had to get that look good empowered feeling from brand new running shoes at school...

as a kid a received one new bike..a mustang marrauder exactly like this one

i felt like a hells angel

 

I thought the spirit of the cowboy hero had empowered you, kind of like when Prince Adam got empowered "by The Power Of Grayskull" and became He-Man!

 

I get a major empowerment thing goin' sometimes when I'm doin group therapy with a room full of Felons and all of us are bustin brains to identify and resolve issues. Hardcore men with ugly histories cuttin' through layers of macho BS so that they can rescue their lives. Tears, cussing, soul wrenching disclosures. Once a certain momentum is reached the group mind takes over and guys start to heal old wounds from their childhood on up. Maybe it's similar to what Rollingalong is talkin about being on stage with the energy pumped full throttle and everybody is in synch with the other. Happened in this mornings group, total power rush.

Many years ago I would get an empowerment buzz from a cranked out V8 inching into the 7000 RPM range and speeds beyond what the speedo could register... I like the therapy buzz better though.

 

I enjoy repressing minorities.

And pretending that those with less capital wealth than me deserve to have their houses taken and starve behind a dumpster.

And doing coke off of hookers' asses' while my personal lobby group puts in overtime to keep pot illegal and sodomy laws on the books.

Those things make me happy.

 

lol..i had a bike exactly like that ...same color and all...the shifter was there ..the name was even still on it..i picked it up at a yard sale for a few dollars with the idea of reselling it to a collector but ended up throwing it out

 

as for the thread topic...I like when kids ask me genuine questions about how stuff works..especially if its a niece or nephew

 

being able to ban people from here feels pretty good sometimes too

 

i gotta find one of those things...I havent felt like that since i was a youngster, playing on the block with friends or with toys..God those were the days

Actually alchol and ciggeretes are pretty awesome lol