Remember the Moments...

I posted this on facebook in 2011, just before my second son, Quinn, was born...

Remember the Moments

May 26, 2011 at 1:45am

I remember a moment when I was 10, I was completely content to sit around a campfire, and it could have lasted forever. I remember the moment my wife smiled at me on our first date. I remember the moment I first saw my son's face when he was born. I will remember the moments that my son laughs with an abandon I have long forgotten. I will experience multiple other moments as my children grow, and even later when they have families of their own. Any given moment is so fragmentally brief, sometimes only an instant. Any plans made will quickly approach, be done, and before I know it only be a memory . In a moment I will be gone and a memory to someone else, and then lost in the passage of time. But if I miss these moments, no matter how brief, I have missed all that matters. If I give in to the constant flicker of time, and succumb to planning, worry and regret, I may miss incredible moments. I can never be too busy or preoccupied to appreciate the special moments of life.