Momentarily

I needed something from The book of Awesome today.  Neil Pasricha's selections of 1000awesomethings can be pretty inspiring and never fails to make me smile.  I flipped through the book and the website nodding to myself that the moments noted were pretty good (fresh cut grass, burst of cold air on a hot day, perfect pancake stack) but they weren't exactly what I was looking for.

Then I saw this #1 entry and I thought, "that's very close...but not quite."

So what about #2:  Remembering how lucky we are to be here right now?

Yes.

Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting.

You will never be as young as you are right now.

So whether you’re enjoying your first toothpicked turkey cold cuts and marveling at apples from South Africa, dreaming of strange and distant relatives from thousands of years ago, or staring into the blackness of deep, deep space, just remember how lucky we all are to be here right now.

                             - Neil Pasricha, 1000 Awesome Things