Midnight Moments

One of these nights stay up with the intention of watching what happens at midnight.

I don't know if you're in bed or by your bedroom window looking up at the stars. Maybe you don't even have a place to call home.

But it's 11:59pm.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

It's now midnight. Did you feel that?

No?

Well neither did I. I would propose this is how most of us perceive the time we have on Earth.

You see one second holds the power to turn tomorrow into today and what used to be known as today will forever be filed in a folder titled yesterday

A single moment did that! But you didn't feel a thing and neither did I. However, it was undeniably and undoubtedly an important moment.

That's your life, that's my life, that's all our lives.

No matter how patient we wait for something important to happen, we feel we end up denying our own importance or what is in store for us.

We've come thus far only to be met with the survivor's guilt of thinking that we don't really deserve to have made it to this part of the story, to be so removed from what we deemed to be the expiration date of our own mortality.

However, as we share this moment together at midnight, you must come to the realization that if a single second can have so profound an impact, what does it mean for you to be alive this long?

Surely you may have tried to run down the clock with your own will, or felt as though you were simply going about the motions of the everyday human. But you're still alive.

I don't know what that looks like for you...

Maybe you are in your 20's, maybe younger, maybe a lot older. I know you must have points looking back on your life where you wonder how you got past that and came out the other side still intact.

I can only assume if you are capable of reading this, your age is that much greater than a day. And if you felt only alive for a day, run with that liveliness, as more is to come. Remember that feeling, it will happen again; it was not a one-off or a one-night only event. A day alone amounts to 86,400 seconds, which is to say that each and every day is quite a big deal.

You are quite a big deal.