The day before today was a good day!
It was day filled with food and family, with love and laughter, with times of solitude and times of crowds. We talked, we sang, we drove and we napped; we discussed school and church, Aristotle and careers, we solved big issues and small problems, we spoke of potential and dreamed of fulfilling it.
At the end of it all we went to bed tired.
Experts continually remind us that life is made up of moments, all of these moments come and go and are forever behind us. In each moment there is the possibility of a lifetime of change; a flick of a hair can change a man’s life forever and a silent curling of a finger around a trigger can devastate a nation. A moment can last for a second or be savoured for an hour; this is a skill that is learned. If like me, you rush from one thing to the next you are not naturally disposed to living like this; but I have been blessed to be taught (by bitter experience sadly) to develop this behavior and actively seek out the moments in day to day living.
A minute is not a moment!
This I learned in school. In the old days before phones in our pockets I always wore a watch; I always knew the time and it was a curse at times watching time seemingly stand still as the teacher would drone on endlessly about subjects that I now love. I was not ready to learn in school, I have come to a knowledge thirst later in life and like many boys (my son included) school is just a distraction and confinement into a world that I was not ready to be part of.
As the corporate machinery grinds indomitably forward and into action for another week, I am grateful for the day before today. Most of the moments that I now remember with a smile will be lost to history and memory before long; we are bombarded with so much information to process that unless a moment shatters the calm or stands out in some stark way we soon filter it down and discard it to some lesser archive miles back in the recesses of our mind. This isn’t even a concious decision, the neural processors take that decision independent of my will. Yesterday’s conversations will be forgotten by the children, the food and snacks will never again be thought of; but they all made up a part of what made the day what it was.
I am grateful for my smart phone. At all times I can capture a moment and remember it at some future date; it doesn’t even need to be the precise thing because the best of moments are not for photographs. Enough to have an associated image that will trigger the bigger picture.
Last night at church in another city a gentleman approached me from the crowd and called me by name. He seemed to know a lot of information and was very friendly; I stood bewildered, his name rang no bells and his face wasn’t at all familiar. My wife sensed what was going on and rescued the situation. Around a year ago I had spoken to him during the interval of a concert.
This event crystallised again for me this deep desire to be ‘in’ my life. So much of 2014 is a blur, medication and poor brain function have discarded much of the external activities. Our bodies are phenomenal in their given abilities to heal themselves, and the more I see what has transpired in mine outwith my influence the more grateful I am to be in this day and determine to find moments, because:
tomorrow, this day will be the day before today.
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