Larger Than Life Moments

Life always amazes me.

You can have one of those days where there are irritating situations all day long. You take deep breaths, rush along through the day, and hope to get to the end as quickly as possible. As you drive home your mind drifts through all of the happenings of the day while mentally creating a list of all of the tasks that need completion by the end of the following day. This process wears you out physically and mentally.

Then you have that moment. That one moment when something small, but larger than life, wakes you up and you again start to appreciate everything around you.

Babies are one of those "small, but larger than life" moments. No matter the stress of the day when you hold a baby and study those little fingers and toes, when you hear the small squeaks come from them as they wiggle and stretch, everything seems to be right again. All irritations and the rush of the day is in the distant past and you are directly in the moment. You pay attention to every little nuance of that seemingly infinite and wonderfully fulfilling moment.

When it passes you aren't saddened by the fact that it is over, you are joyful that you have the memory with you forever. As the years go by you become a little melancholy that it went so swiftly but it will be a part of you until you leave this earth and possibly beyond.