Moments

Life is made up of moments. You collect these moments in your memory and you carry them with you and they define who you are, for better or for worse. There are moments that bring you complete and utter joy and there are moments that make you want to weep of sadness or frustration and and there are moments that go unacknowledged and marked as insignificant, stored away in the back of your memory rarely to be thought of again. All these moments exist simultaneously in your memory.

There are those moments, though, that are so overwhelming that they take over all the other moments. Those moments that are played over and over again in your memory. All other moments seem to pale in comparison. It may be one of those near perfect moments that you wish you could relive forever or it may be one of those tragic moments you wish you could forget.

These moments, in particular, are the moments that define you. These moments motivate you to make certain decisions and these decisions lead to new defining moments. These are the the moments that shape your entire life, whether you like it or not. These are the moments you will carry with you forever. These are the moments that will mark periods of time in your life.You will look back on those moments and realize that something in your life changed because of that one moment. You became a different person because of that moment.

It could be an event, a conversation, a realization. Whatever it is, it will be marked as significant and you will never forget it. You may move on and recall this moment less and less, but you will not forget it because that moment changed you, shaped you. It made you who you are today and that you will not forget.