Moments

We've written about senior moment but not much about moments. We all have our moments: good, bad, indifferent. In watching a commercial recently, I watched a tiny tot, a huge smile on his face, awkwardly walking toward the camera. Suddenly, down he went, smile and all only to do it over and over again. Often wonder how they pay those little ones for their contribution to a commercial?

Then I watched the Olympics. Talk about smiles in their faces when the Opening Ceremony paraded hundreds of athletes and their coaches. Some with cameras, others who saw their friends and family and waved without a frown in sight. Their moment of glory had arrived.

A moment is a fleeting thing, easily replaced by a frown or a tear only to await the next moment. It is sure to come, ready or not. Then there are those times when we wish a moment would come like when slipping on the sidewalk but no one in sight to catch the one falling. It happens.

I remember marrying off my daughter. I was brave, I thought, until that moment when I said Laurie, do you take Gary to be . . . The moment I uttered her name, I choked up and could only sputter those vital words. Then, later I did the same thing with my son when he married his sweetheart. It couldn't possibly happen twice but it did.

Yes, a moment can be longer, much longer. We wait and wait until we cry out, Hurry up and we hear that word I'll be with you in a moment! And the moments tick by. Then there is that moment we've all been waiting for. The polls were not in accord as we waited for the last votes to come in. What a moment.

Dictionaries describe a moment as as short period of time; a precise period of time; a period of time right now. But it can also be implied to mean more such as a fine athlete who has his moments. An interesting word, isn't it? Actually it fits my Senior Moments Webpage as moment means many things which justifies the column. Yet Senior moments may not always be linked to an older person, it can also refer to a significant, stately, or lofty concept or idea or . . . Anyway, we all have our moments. What your last memorable moment worth remembering?