Moments

“There are few things in life that are equal to great conversation, and I feel that last night was great conversation.”

We all have those moments in life that help to define our lives. They become part of our personal fabric and shape who we are. These become the stories that we tell of ourselves and eventfully, the stories that are told about us. They are the things that become our mythology

These moments I speak of are wide in their variety. One may be the first time that you ever did something. Another could be a particular piece of music or a passage of music. A scene in a film or a passage from a book my stir something in your spirit. Perhaps it a place or a feeling. All these things and more, taken together, are what give us life. They cause us to live. To seek after that moment in a day that becomes that part we set aside for our memory.

As I sit here, I am drawn to two such moments. Both of these concern friends; one old friend and two newer ones. One takes place in pub near Trafalgar Square in London, the other in a restaurant near The Gulch in Nashville. One involved few words being spoken; the other was a tapestry of conversation. One celebrated the simplicity of life and a few quiet, sometimes silent, moments over a pint. The other celebrated those many points of interest, that variety of who we are. Each one only lasts for a short while.

They were mere seconds in an eternity of time. They are over and you part company, wishing that the clock could have stopped for just a moment.

Friends and conversation. Two essential elements of life.

~ Greg