Sparkly Moments

I tend to lose things a lot, or maybe it's just that I'm really absent-minded. Like the day I wore two different shoes to class--no joke. Actually I think I'm not so much absent-minded as I'm very easily distracted. Dangle something sparkly or interesting in front of me and there I go. Sometimes thoughts work in my head like that, something interesting (or sparkly) pops into my brain, and I have to follow it or lose it. (Like on the phone with John tonight, I said that I was going to come see him if I had to run screaming down the hall painted green. He wanted to know where that thought came from--I have absolutely no clue.)

It's like that with a lot of things, relationships, life, God--that instant where something strikes you--you can choose to live in it and let it change you, or put it aside to be forgotten ten minutes later. And I'm always left wondering what might have happened had I grabbed onto those instants.

Lately, I've been trying not to let my busy schedule keep me from relishing the moments that ten years down the road I'll remember much more than whether or not I finished my Lit assignment. It's the conversations and people that will stick with me. It's the truth I took time to contemplate that will stick and become a part of my heart. Maybe it's just that I'm so detail-oriented, but I'm finding that those little instants are shaping me into who I am. Hmm. So many thoughts.