"Moments -- our lives are a series of moments. If you're lucky you'll get to have hundreds even thousands of them. There will be small moments. Moments when you're doing something so mundane you won't even realize you're in a moment. There will also be big moments. Life changing ones. These ones will be in your memory for an awfully long time. Keep them all safe. This is a moment."
Our whole lives are a bunch of moments. Our days are moments. Our hours, our seconds. It's hard to think about them when you're in them. It's so easy to look back on them though, and think how great that moment was or how bad it was. We tend to focus on the really outstanding ones or the heartbreaking ones. Those emotions are so extreme that those moments just pop out.
It wasn't until this year that I started thinking in the moment. While it was happening, and telling myself how great it currently is to be in the moment right now.
It's when someone remembers who you are from a quick moment with them the other night. They possibly remember every detail like what you were wearing, your giving key around your neck and the way you talked. You changed their moment, but they remember your moment.
It's the moment you realize you are actually kissing someone. That your lips are touching and nothing else matters. Not even the fact that you may be scared because of your past, and your guard is high... because the moment is happening.
It's when you're in a group of believers and the lights suddenly get really bright above you all when the chorus builds up and everybody is raising their hands to the heavens.
You're surrounded by your sisters about to go on a stage and show everybody what you've been working on for months. You remind yourselves that this is what sisterhood is; the love, the acceptance and appreciation of each other.
When you're sitting on the floor in your new house with people you never thought would be in your life. But here they are, and as you sit there listening to their laughs and words you can't help but smile in that moment and be thankful in that moment.
Moments are so much more than a memory. They make up who you are. They bring you to the place you are currently in.
I'm so grateful for them. Even the ones that make me cry. Like when someone tells you they never see you in their life ever again, or when someone just feels obligated to get to know you for no reason, or the goodbyes that are harder than usual.
I'm grateful for them because a moment is a moment. I don't know when I'll stop having them. No one does. So when the bad ones come, I let them happen and move on.
I'm not saying that you should always recognize when you're in one and appreciate it, but know that they are there and are there for a reason.
Keep them safe. All of them.
