How funny time is. In one instance everything is still and pristine. In another, such chaos has erupted that it seems impossible to find the eye of the storm. Moments fly by at rates mathematically illogical, and in each moment, something changes. A thought, a feeling, a notion.
Logic gets thrown out the window, and in due time, time moves backward - for just a moment. In such a fast-paced world we live in, a moment is all we get. So if that's the case, is a moment all we have to prove ourselves? To feel the emotions that run through our bodies? To be what we can?
It always seems that there is either never enough time or that we have all the time in the world. Yet, these moments are stacked against us. Our hypocritical moments, our moments of failing our beliefs and values, our moments of success and joy. All of these moments pile up in memories, bringing to our attention that we are not infallible. That we are creatures of curiosity, creatures who know better than to play with a bad idea.
Maybe we aren't running out of time as I once thought we were. Maybe everything can slow down and these fleeting moments can take just a second to catch their breaths with us. Sit beside us as we lay in the grassy knoll looking up at the stars. The stretched moments of happiness where time flew by at an unmitigated speed.
So perhaps this isn't the lives we envisioned for ourselves. Perhaps we had dreams of being everything there was to be. Perhaps we had dreams of making a difference, a great one at that.
But all we have are moments. Fleeting moments that slip through our fingers like sand. Our precious hourglass is replaced with electronic clocks and our moments are incalculable. At the sake of sounding trite, cherish the moment you have, for it will be over in the blink of an eye.
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