When we are aware of moments that comprise an hour and hours that make a day, we begin understanding the wealth of Life. If we slow down enough to appreciate moments unravelling before us, it becomes clear that life is more than a few “big” events, a few chosen people, and a few targeted goals reached. Every moment is a wonder in itself, a lesson, an opportunity, or simply a sight to behold and enjoy. Why can’t we see it? How come we brush off most of what we experience through our senses, so focused on some imaginary next moment, decision, event or person we are expecting, away from the “now” we are in?
How much Life fits into a lifetime? How much happiness, sorrow, wonder and surprises can we squeeze into just a few decades? How many tears, happy or sad have we cried so far? How many people loved us, left us, found us and abandoned us? How many friends have we lost and strangers we’ve befriended? How many happy moments does life hold? How many memories will squeeze into a moment of reflection? How much can we feel, experience, and soak in?
There is no limit to Life if we embrace the present moment. There are countless miracles and infinite wonder in the slice of time between two heartbeats.
Even on the mind level, if you stop and think about it – right this second – how full, abundant, and infinite it is. Within our own body, millions of tiny, synchronised events keep us alive and breathing. Bacteria digest the food; oxygen is collected within our lungs and delivered to trillions of cells all over our body; thousands of instructions are sent to and from our subconscious mind. The heart beats, blood flows, lungs expand and retract; muscles stiffen and relax; the cells produce energy and release their waste, all without our conscious awareness. So much crammed into every second of our own body, and we don’t even notice it consciously until we learn to slow down and tune in.
And that is just one human body, what about trillions of living creatures around us, animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and viruses? And then Nature itself and all the wondrous processes that are vital and incredibly complex and happen without our awareness or even understanding. The climate, winds, sunshine, clouds, rains, droughts, earthquakes, landslides; waves shaping the coastlines relentlessly; tides reacting to forces shape the Universe itself – all that and much, much more happening every single second, mostly lost to us, invisible to our senses because they are focused on the superficial, the fears, the stories our mind creates, the constant swaying between regrets of the past and fears for the future.
So, how much Life fits into a lifetime? An infinite amount of it overflows every single moment, let alone a human lifetime. How much is bound only by our awareness of the present moment, and how much we are willing to observe, sense and feel. For some people, a lifetime amounts to nothing, and for others, every “nothing” amounts to a lifetime.
Pull your attention inward; slow down and allow yourself to observe the wonders that fill every moment with something new, amazing and glorious. It will bring a different perspective to your worries so you can see how tiny and insignificant most of them are. In return, that will create space to acknowledge how beautiful and special every new breath is, how amazing it can feel to simply Be, to exist, to observe and witness and enjoy; and with that, add to that infinite abundance a little bit of magic, uniquely yours and special. It really isn’t about how many moments there are in your life, but how much Life there is in your every moment.
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