Moments

Have you ever felt as if time just rushed by so fast that you didn't know what was happening? Or maybe time slowing to a meandering halt just as you really want it to breeze by? Our minds are not as in tune with time as the physical world is. Our thoughts are measured in moments. Eternity can be just a moment. And a moment can last for a long time. We often drift away in a dream that seems like a lifetime, and yet when we snap back into reality, only moments have passed. In the time it takes for a single second to pass, infinite moments are created. And moments create memories, not time. That's why sometimes just a few weeks of knowing someone wonderful can already seem like a lifetime spent with them. And the agony of getting over someone lost may seem too long for a lifetime to accomplish... in the infinite moment of a second, it is too long.

All too often we take moments for granted. Moments, like time, do not repeat themselves. Moments of realizations may hit us, moments of grief may render us stunned, and moments of happiness may seem like heaven. But these moments, once passed, can only be recalled in memory, and often just bits and pieces of it.

Moments. We take moments for granted. We long for them to return once they have passed, not noticing the moments we may already be missing at that moment.