Make Life’s Moments Momentous

What is life? Philosophers and religious scholars and non-religious scholars and simpletons have been striving to answer this question for millennia.

I’m no Plato, but the answer to that question seems quite simple to me: life is a string of moments, connected together by the passage of time.

Most of life’s moments involve sitting in a lecture hall or driving to the store or something otherwise mundane. And what about sleep? Does the fact that we spend a third of our lives ASLEEP not infuriate you?

If life is a string of moments, should we not devote our everything into maximizing the momentousness of each and every one?

Sure, you could buy your seven-year-old son a plain chocolate birthday cake. Or you could purchase a chocolate birthday cake adorned with a personalized vanilla icing message. Or you could bake and decorate the chocolate birthday cake for him yourself. Or you could bake the chocolate birthday cake with him and let him decorate it.

Sure, you could crack open a biology book and teach your class about the circulatory system of a frog. Or you could ditch the book and slice open an actual frog. Or you could bring a live frog into your classroom and jokingly ask who wants to kill it as all the boys’ hands fly up.

And sure, you could casually tell your dad that you’re pregnant. You could tell him over the phone, or you could tell him over dinner. You could tell him with typical spoken words if you wanted to do that. You could do that.

But if life is already filled with so many mundane moments, why settle for creating anything less than distinct, unforgettable moments?

With that, I invite you to watch this video of a soon-to-be grandfather first receiving the big news. A moment. Watch, smile, cry, and go forth, renewed in your mission to make life’s moments momentous.

Momentous for you, sure, but mostly momentous for everyone else.