Choosing a Mindful Life Over Missed Opportunities

Do the moments of our lives create a story we want told?

Stevie Nicks is singing, Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me, and I’m thinking of the moments that, on their own, don’t define my life. But strung together? They tell much of my story.

Of course, we never get the whole picture of someone else’s life. I think about that with people I’ve lost, namely my grandmother. I can take other people’s memories and line them up with my own and make something that might look like a mosaic of the life she lived. I doubt it’s entirely accurate, but it’s what I have left.

But I wonder sometimes about my own memories and the picture they make. The full truth is that I don’t really care very much about how they look from the outside looking in. I think the real value of looking at our big moments is to get an accurate picture from the inside. If we’ve got patterns that we don’t like, this is where we have the opportunity to identify them and work toward change.

Of course, when we think of big moments, we often think of the usual milestones: birth, graduation, marriage, divorce, the birth or adoption of a child, illness, or death. There are too many to name. While those are big moments — often huge, extraordinary, picture-worthy moments, there are many life-altering moments that are equally as powerful, if not more so.

I can say that my marriage altered little of my life, but the moment I made the decision to get divorced, my life was altered fully. The birth of my children was significant, beautiful, and powerful, but the life I’ve crafted for the three of us after the dissolution of my marriage was damn near awe-inspiring. Simply because I started with a little and made it a lot; I made it more than work — I made it beautiful.

Other moments change us, too. These are the small decisions that alter our future in ways we never would have expected. Our memories play out, and we can want to hold them tight or erase…

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