I don't know if most of us are stuck in certain moments? I mean something happened and we never really moved away from that point although time and life has moved on.... At the risk of appearing boring I'll tell you about my moment:
At the age of about nineteen my life had been nothing if not colourful. Disfunctional family, in local authority care, various abuses and a dismall lack of self esteem. I moved to a shared house in town, it had been arranged for me by a social worker. It was a fresh start but I had little self belief and felt unloveable. One night I remember looking at the night sky from my bedroom window and seeing loads of shooting stars, it seemed significant, like some kind of watershed. That night I had a dream in which a voice kept saying, "don't worry, Helen is coming." The next day, completely out of the blue a girl knocked on my door. She was my next door neighbour, I had never seen her before. She had forgotten her key and needed to climb over from the garden. Her name was Helen! Without going into the details we had a crazy love affair and both swore we were soul mates. It was like we had been waiting to meet each other. We said we were made for each other and would be together forever. Her early life had been very similar to mine, we understood each other instinctively. It was great until one day she just left without explanation. I could not get her to come back or tell me what had happened. Out of the blue, six months later she knocked on my door again. She was moving to London, she asked me to go with her but I just turned away, I thought she would just hurt me again. I never saw her after that.
Life has moved on a lot since then, I have all the trappings of normal life these days, married, family, career and all the rest of it. Somehow though part of me has remained stuck in this moment, the loose ends and the lack of explanation just left me with unanswered questions.
I would like to know how other people have got stuck in a moment.........I think it happens to a lot of people.

I think I'm familiar with a similar feeling. I won't say I know how that feels because I don't. However, I do know how it feels to think you're finally happy with someone and then they leave without explaining why. It messes with your head and it doesn't go away.

Also, there are all kinds of moments that just stick. You can remember something that happened 5 years ago more vividly than you remeber last weekend or yesterday afternoon. I'm not sure what it is but certain moments have something about them that makes them significant...