These Moments

Time is forever passing. The clock never ceases to tick away the minutes, the seconds of our lives. We are continually moving and striving and are about the busyness of day to day existence. Even in making these posts I am astonished at how much time passes between each entry at times. Has it really been almost a week? Has it only been JUST a week? See. It even plays tricks on us. How can it feel like just moments ago that I was typing away here last Wednesday and yet, I feel like worlds away from that moment?

Now, I don't mean to get deeply and darkly philosophical concerning life and time, but since it's been weighing on me heavily lately and the manner in which it passes and how we spend it, and we are all facing it whether we choose to address it or not, it's a key component of our human condition, I feel it is worth mentioning. Life is moving... Fast.

It's a thin gauze. We are merely a breath away from eternity or the unknown. I don't know if everyone feels this at this point or if it's just because children grow and change so quickly that life and mortality become so material before our very eyes. Moments ago I was a child and life had yet to happen. I was invincible and waiting for it all to begin. Then all of a sudden it seems I was living it and then it's like a cold wind: leaving you behind and you are grasping at it as it's whipping through your very fingers. I am now looking into the eyes of my own children who it feels like just moments ago were being born. The eldest is now six and a half, the other four and the little one is already a year old. How can that be? It's hard to bend my mind around it. I'm not quite sure why.

All this to say all that we already know: life is fleeting and we make it what it is. Hug your loves a little tighter and start living the life of your dreams. These days more than ever I remind myself to breathe it all in and to savor the little moments. These are what life is made of.

Until the next...