What Makes Life Worth Living: Create Tiny Epic Moments "Cassidy asked her students to write about the significant moments in their lives. One student, who has traveled to Paris, did not write about climbing the Eiffel Tour. She wrote about trading bread with a friend at breakfast that morning in the hotel, swapping her croissant for a baguette. Last week, my coach asked me what I’d done so far that morning. Actually she wanted me to write a poem about it to spur creativity. “I don’t want to write about it,” I said. “I haven’t done anything worth writing about.” My list of activities so far included folding laundry, making breakfast, and returning books to the library. “Good,” she said. :”Write about that. That is life.” We all have a few unforgettable moments in life. The big ones. When your mate dropped to one knee. Scoring the winning goal. You can probably short-list yours. But today, I want to celebrate the unheralded yumminess of the teeny-tiny moments that make up your life. Because my coach was right. Those are the moments that cumulatively create a life well-lived. While I can’t begin to guess what will run through my mind when I die, I hope it is a moment like this: When my daughter was maybe two or three, we were visiting my in-laws on Lake Michigan, staying in a lakefront A-Frame cabin they call the chalet. We came in from the beach one hot afternoon and my daughter and I went upstairs, turned on the window air conditioner, and fell asleep on the cool white sheets to the hum of the A/C. While we napped, we must have turned to face one another and a couple of hours later we opened our eyes simultaneously. In that moment, in the cool room on a hot day, I looked into her gigantic chocolate eyes and felt I could see into her soul, so trusting, so loving. I really saw her. And I felt seen and loved. We’ve had many big moments in our family. Traveling to China to pick up my daughter. Paris for my 40th birthday. Buying our dream house on my daughter’s first day of first grade. But I hope it will be the teeny tiny moments like napping with my daughter that will flash before my eyes. For in that moment, there was nothing but love."
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:01:43 +0000
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