I would say that you were very much alive, and in the moment :) ... reminds me of one of Laurie Anderson's monologues where she describes being carried down off

I would say that you were very much alive, and in the moment :) ... reminds me of one of Laurie Anderson's monologues where she describes being carried down off a mountain by a fellow hiker because she was about to die (from altitude sickness I think), and the hiker told her stories the whole way down in order to give her something to focus on...