Moments

This is my favorite time of the year. The time between Halloween and the New Year. There so many great moments to take in, you appreciate the fact that it covers a few months. I love the weather, the smell of the air, the fact that I can wear the leather jacket, the decorations both inside the house and out, and it's basketball season.

The season has officially begun and now we get to play games, practice everyday, and really grow as a team and individuals. This is the time of the year where you need to cherish the moments that are presented to you. Celebrate the times you have with friends and family. Celebrate the moments in your life.

Gosh that was horrible. I just read that and I see the sentimental nonsense that just came out of my mouth. Am I really just one big cliche after another? Well even if I am, it still doesn't change the sentiment.

I am all about the moments in my life. All about remembering things and experiences. I remember the good and the bad, but I remember the moments, because without those, what's the point? If life is all about work and bills and pain, why do we get up each day and go through it all over again? You what insane is? Doing the same thing over and over again knowing that the result will not be good but you do it anyway.

Take time to remember a moment, celebrate that moment, look for ways to make it last.

Who remembers the movie, Dead Poets Society? Robin Williams plays Charles Keating, a teacher of English in an all-boys school during the 1950s. The school prides itself on preparing the men to become successful lawyers, doctors, etc. Keating wants them to appreciate life. There's a scene early on where he is talking about why they study poetry and why it is important. He tells the boys that medicine, law, engineering, or basically jobs, are important and necessary to sustain life, but that beauty, poetry, romance, love, these are things that we live for. We live for the moments. We work to create opportunities to live the moments. To have time for the moments. But if you work all the times and never look for the moment, what are you doing this for?

I think we could all do with the advice of Mr. Keating.... live for the moment. Enjoy life. Seize the day, as he told his students... Carpe Diem.

Make your lives extraordinary! Gosh I love that.

Until next time
P