From the point in time in which a fertilized egg splits into two for the very first time, to the very last seconds in which we exhale our last breath, our lives are shaped, touched, felt and lived through a series of defining moments:
The exhilarating moment when we, as children, realized that we were riding the bicycle-for but a split second-unassisted and without the training wheels...
The moment of our first kiss and how strange yet delicious and warm it felt sending millions of tingling shocks of electricity through every cell of our bodies...
The first time we made love, not just with our physical bodies, but with our SOULS...
The moment in which a newborn's tiny little hand wraps around a single finger of her exhausted mother and makes it all worthwhile...
The moment when a parent hears "dada" or "mama" for the first time...
The moment when we know, with every shred of our being that we are in love...
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Of course life is not that kind and generous to bestow upon us only moments of utter and sheer happiness.
We feel pain...
We feel the unbearable and the deafening silence of loneliness…
We feel sorrow…
We cry...
We become ill...
We experience defeats, disappointments and loss...
And we should!!!
For it is the existence and the experience of sorrow, pain, loneliness, defeat, disappointment, and loss that give us the frame of reference, the perspective and the contrast needed to truly appreciate and treasure, laughter, happiness, triumph, beauty in the most minute of things, and love.
We, live our lives, each in her or his own special and unique way, to covet, to seek, to find, to create, to collect, and even sometimes to steal as many beautiful and meaningful moments as we can!
And, we wear these treasured moments like beautiful and priceless charms on the bracelets of our lives!
At the end, it matters not how long we have lived. What matters is the number of charms hanging off of our bracelets of life!!!!!
I give you my latest piece:
"Treasured Moments, Priceless Charms on the Bracelet of Life"
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