If I had to choose one perfect moment from my life to make into a one-second film it would be when I realized I could control my dreams, becoming lucid. When it happened I immediately decided to fly and forget everything else. It only lasted for a moment, but I swear I'll never forget it.

Now.

It’s a toss up between the first time that I ever held my son and the first time I held him after returning from my deployment in Iraq. Both moments are beautiful and vivid and as close to perfect as possible.

The last hug I ever recieved from my friend Kristin.

My perfect life moment happened only a couple months ago. I spent the semester travelling through Northern India with some other students. We stayed in an orphanage for 2 weeks and were encouraged to engage the children in English, so a friend and myself decided to put on a musical. We made up a fun show based on the Mario Brothers which incorporated easy American songs. The show was eventually performed in front of the entire school that the children attended. It was a huge success and I realized just how much I had come to care for these kids in only 2 weeks. But just as the kids were finishing their bow, the woman in charge of the orphanage declared that the directors (me and my friend) were now going to perform a song. We didn't know what she was talking about and my friend promptly ran out of the room leaving me alone. I had no idea what to sing. I picked a song from the Broadway show Wicked that I had just performed for my Grandmother's 80th birthday: For Good. I only chose it in the moment because I knew all the words, but as I sang, I realized just how pertinent the words were:" it well may be, that we may never meet again in this lifetime, so let me say before we part. so much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart." it was wonderful

When my eyes teared up the moment my son was born.

one perfect moment in my life is when me and my dads side of the family were all sitting around a camp fire over the summer. We all sit around talk and tell jokes. (and of course eat smores)

It would have to be a smile.

I am shirtless, extremely muscular and handsome, standing on the beach glistening in the setting sun, playing the mandolin. A seagull poops on my face.

My 1-second moment would be marching into the Olympic Stadium in 1984 as a competing athlete

I know what it will be... but I have not experienced it yet. I promise to share it once it is mine to give.

Christmas morning, while I was still a kid and naïve. That one second when I'd wake up and remember what day it was.

If I had to choose a perfect moment from my life to make into a 1 second film, I would choose the moment I put my feet into the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Mind-blowing. I felt like I was walking off the edge of the world.

For myself, personally - moment I looked into my son's eyes for the very first time

The moment my goddaughter Alexis was born and I got to hold her.

A really good that's what she said joke.

What an interesting question...it took me some time, but this is what I came up with: When I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, I went to 'Take your daughter to work day' with my dad, who was a satellite engineer at Lockheed Martin. I spent the day having a great time doing the activities and seeing the exhibits Lockheed had set up, but for some reason what I remember best was getting to eat lunch in the cafeteria with my dad. I had this Reese's ice cream novelty thing for dessert - peanut butter ice cream covered in chocolate and shaped like a peanut butter cup. My perfect moment was when I was sitting there with my dad in Lockheed Martin's cafeteria, and I took my first bite of that ice cream (which was delicious). I don't know why that memory is so vivid, but it's one of my very favorite memories of time spent with my dad (who died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, when I was 16 years old)

My first and only skydive from a moving airlane. It was a great experience to conquer a fear by taking a risk. Then I would watch my 1-second film every morning when I first wake up.

Dipping my feet in the warm Arabian sea, just as the sun sets. Looking out into nothing. Everything calm and still for that one second.

The moment for me would be the precise moment my brother passed. I don't know if you would consider that perfect but it has had the most profound effect on me. He was only 12 but lived a life of full of pain. That second felt like an hour of the most unimaginable experience that you can never prepare for.