A moment is defined as a "very short period of time." However, it is so much more than that. They're tiny and can vanish with the blink of an eye, but they can change who you are and what you stand for, forever. It is a single glimpse, touch, emotion, or sentence that makes up a small part of who you are. How incredible to think about. The moment your parents hugged you and told you they're proud of you. The moment someone told you how you're viewed through the eyes of others. The moment someone you love made you feel important. The moment the death of a loved one made you cry until you couldn't breath. The moment someone became meaningful to your life. The moment someone taught you something that they don't teach in the school books. All it takes is a weak moment to make you strong and a joyful moment to make you thankful.
There is something about passing a church as the bride and groom's family and friends send them off to start their new life together. There is also something about witnessing a random act of kindness on the street. Why are these moments so important? Why are they engraved in our minds? All humans have adopted this weird concept where we are always going, going, going. We do day-to-day things. Most times, world-changing things don't make it to the to-do lists in our lives. "Write your paper, pick up groceries, gym, nap." Yet, the moments that we witness outside that church or on the street give us feelings of love and hope and make life worth living.
Those are the moments we should strive for more often. I encourage you all to put your phones down, put your to-do lists down (although very helpful and comforting), and savor moments that are magical and infectious. The ones that make your life whole. In the end, they are all we have.
