It's Only a MoMeNt

IT’S ONLY A MOMENT

You can have it if you want.  

I’ve been piling up mine for years.  There’s plenty to go around, so don’t feel as though you’re being greedy when you take yours.  Or when you do anything you can to keep one.  I’ll take yours if you really don’t want them.  Do what you want.  I mean, it’s only a moment.

In a moment everything that could possibly happen in the universe is happening all at once.  If you really try to understand or comprehend that you may get a bit overwhelmed.  But, no worries, I am specifically talking about your moments for now.

Some moments are better than others.  In a moment of sadness, you may wish for all of your moments to end.  In a moment of anger, you may act out in a way that’s typically not like you.  The key is to take, keep and cherish your moments at all costs.

This is not a physical act.  You cannot open a jar and guide the moments in with your hands.  This is strictly a mental activity.  

When attempting to enjoy, grasp, take or keep your moment, you may realize that some moments have gone by, and that’s okay.  Taking the time to learn how to keep your moments is something that is well worth doing.  Once you learn how to keep them, you rarely forget.  And the benefit from doing so is immensely important to your energy and soul.

It’s really easy to look back or ahead and pick out specific moments that are or were worth keeping.  This is before you realize that they all are worth keeping.  That first kiss, that deep in the belly laugh-producing story that was told, that moment you realized how big the universe was, or how small you were.  That moment of independence and growth.  The moment the wall that was blocking your happiness was dropped, climbed over or blown apart at the seams.

Those moments are easy to keep, remember, cherish and love.  

But what about that moment of tragedy?  Sadness, death of a loved one.  That moment of chaos?  Those are still your moments.  To do with as you please.  I really can’t tell you how to take a moment that, on the surface seems negative, and keep it as your moment.  But I can tell you that once you keep that “negative” moment as yours, the word negative removes itself from your vocabulary.

Think now about the very moment that will undoubtedly be there waiting for you the moment you finish reading this paragraph.  Start to envision the best possible way to keep that moment, the way to get the most out of it.  For the sake of this paragraph, we’re going to name the moment I’m speaking of.  We’ll call it “Now”.  So “now” is going to be there waiting for you.  It will be followed by an infinite number of “now’s” that are going to come directly after it.  Focus on the first “now”.  Figure out how you are going to keep it as yours.  It might not be an action.  It might be a mental state.  Whatever it is make it yours.  The time, the moment, the thought is now.