Moment-A brief period of time it is now gone.

A moment is just a moment. What exactly makes something more? When you look at something and suddenly see it from a new perspective and understand its natural beauty. Life transposed through the telescope’s view provided by the presence of someone who has changed you and the way you currently look at the world. It is through the experience of these special people we all find growth. Life is growth, and to experience it makes a moment, not just a moment but something more.

Don’t Be Empty

It seems many people are in constant competition with life to see how well they measure up to others. How much money is good to have? How big is your house? How well known are you? I have no problem with having any of these things due to being who you are, and it is when the pursuit of these material gains is precisely who you are. It represents the shallow side of life.

It is an empty journey to focus on the collection of things. The experience is the experience itself. Each moment provides a stepping stone to understanding yourself and the world around you. I have learned more by spending an hour or so walking around an arboretum than I learned in most years of my formal education, and it was the company and the experience teaching me. Moments like that, exploring the unique design and trees and walking the wooded paths, my memory tells me, are a good thing. I love those memories now and cherish them like they were bricks of gold because they are all that is left—a time of wonder, taken almost for granted, and now gone. The moment is a moment until you realize it is something more.

Holding a Hand

There are few things in life as simple and connecting as holding hands. I once thought it was foolish to show this affection for someone in this manner. Yet now, as I have gotten older, I have realized the great moment and feeling that holding hands can be. It is more than a simple connection, it is a transfer of energy from one being to another. It is a public statement that we are together, which is OK with us. In a word, it is magic, or at least it can be in the moment you realize it.

Once this is taken away, you realize how much you enjoyed it and would spend just about anything you have for one moment only to hold hands again and be together in any natural way. It is that feeling, at that moment that sits in my mind and makes me remember how good things were and makes me want to believe they can be again if only…………. But only time will tell if dreams can be natural or just foolish. Holding a hand can take you high in the sky and out of touch. The moment is just a moment until it is something more.

A Night

Every night the sky goes dark, and if you are fortunate to have a cloudless sky, the world of the stars opens up to you. N w you can see these stars on many occasions, and if you contemplate them and where they place you in the Universe, it can profoundly affect you. B t no matter how much contemplation you exude, how small you feel, or the wonder of your enchantment with the sky, they will be but a little thing compared to the sky I saw with you.

The world opened up to me that night, and the sky never looked that way before, and never has since and probably won’t again. I was not just looking at the stars in a dark sky, but I was swallowed up by them, entirely engulfed by them. There are no words to describe the depth or the beauty of that moment except to say, and I understand more about life having experienced it. I feel grateful for seeing it, and the only thing that made it possible was you and the fact we were together seeing this incredible wonder and experiencing this show of shock and awe. You can see the sky most nights. B t not like that. A moment is just a moment until you realize it is something more. Sometimes we realize this too late.

You Can’t go Back

Even though you can’t go back to the past, it doesn’t mean you can’t move forward. W  should be striving to make each moment in our existing one that we can stretch toward and find a connection to the infinite. There are special people we meet who allow this connection. Perhaps you never realized you were missing it before, but now you know that you were. The moments of love, the moments of kindness, the moments of shared laughter, and fun all combine to create an experience of moments. I never believed they could exist, and when they were there right in front of my eyes, I never thought they would ever end. Now that they have, I feel cheated somehow. That the reality of all the moments combined to rob me of the truth of what might be, those moments were always more.

How could you be ready for someone to change in an instant? How can you ever protect yourself? Unfortunately, the lesson is you can’t. People will behave in their own best interest a lot of the time. Regardless of what they show you over time, a dark side is still there. G eat people have conquered it. O hers are too young, too distracted, or too selfish to see the damage they cause. Y  can never go back and pick up the pieces and put them together again. The view you have developed in seeing the world no longer makes any sense. A  moment is a moment until you are shattered all over the floor.

Time Machine?

No time machine can carry me back to the happy moments or to the times I fell in love or the moments I enjoyed so much. I  m destined to live into new moments and be foolish or wise enough to think there will be good days ahead. I  know this moment is just a moment, as all moments are just waiting for the opportunity to come alive with the right company and emotions. Lo e is that passion, and how you allow it to be applied to your life is vital to your happiness and the ability to see your moments as their most significant potential.

A moment is a moment until you realize it is something more, a game, a talk, a thought, a whisper, an adventure, a relaxing time, a trip, a field, a sky, a mountain, a bench by the water, all provide moments that can swallow you and never let you go. Em race these moments and revel in them, knowing they are something more.

But only for the briefest of moments.

“I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.” Anna Godbersen

“Nothing is permanently perfect. But  there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.” Mary Balogh

“At the end, one didn’t remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.”- David Levien

“We make patterns; we share moments.”-Jenny Downham

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”- Simon Van Booy