"Moment" has always been a strange term to me, because it is basically an undefined unit of time. How long is a moment? Sometimes it's a few seconds, other times it's a few minutes. Pretty much anyone can decide how long a moment is and that definition changes from moment to moment, and that's an incredibly interesting concept to me.
I like moments, because they are a reflection of how time is a man-made concept. I like that my life could be comprised of an infinite number of moments, despite the minutes or hours or days probably being finite (I'm not ruling out immortality here). I like that I can "live in the moment" and also decide when that moment is and how long I want it to be.
I think that moments are also sort of a reflection on people and how they try to adapt things so they can better deal with them. On a shallow level, this means that people created moments to make measuring time easier. I can define a matter of seconds and several minutes with the same term - how efficient. But on a deeper level, it's easier to deal with a finite time-frame if I can define it in infinite terms; like I mentioned, my life has infinite moments, but probably a set number of minutes.
Regardless of how you think of moments, I hope you're seizing at least some of them and making them count. Have a fantastic weekend - comprised of infinite moments!
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