{"id":63831,"date":"2023-12-19T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/?p=63831"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:36:06","slug":"picking-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevilleronan.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/19\/picking-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was one of those near perfect Floridays yesterday without a single cloud in the sky and a temperature in the upper sixties. Totally perfect for a day on a trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that it was a Monday was irrelevant to my decision and I know I should have been working. But an afternoon on the trail with my nature buddies was the therapy that was needed and I took it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being with nature on such a beautiful day was absolutely therapeutic and though we were there at an unusual time (normally early morning) we still got to see a lot of familiar faces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were several highlights but the one that meant the most was probably seeing the bald eagle. He flew past us a couple of times although most of his time was spent quite a distance away in the sky and my camera was just about able to find him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I put a number of pics at the end of the blog and I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea for the blog from this trail-adventure was quite a straightforward and simple one. Yesterday was all about picking the moment and then acting on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have been easy to convince myself to stay at the PC and though I used several arguments as to why I could leave (it’s the end of the year, there isn’t much happening, the weekend was cloudy and rainy, next weekend I might be too busy, etc.) I didn’t need to have a reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moment was there. I just needed to take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In life we get a lot of those instances. Some of them are opportunities and I have written about that before. But not everything has to be about benefit and loss or possibilities and regrets. Sometimes it boils down to a simple “does this feel like a good idea?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday did for me. And I was right to go with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you know what, even if I was wrong, who gives a fuck? These are our moments. This is our life. We get to either choose or ignore moments and life goes on regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking the moment is all about experiencing life in our own way. There is a lot of opportunity to live your life the way someone else tells you. But so much of life is about us\/ourselves. We come into the world and exit the world on our own. We experience pain and disappointment on our own. We experience joy and love on our own. Yes, I know others feel those too but our feeling is OURS and we experience that feeling based on a moment that we have chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a lot spoken and written of the meaning of life and many of us will disagree on what it is all about. I like to think of it as a chaotic happening that by itself, means absolutely nothing. But as part of the bigger picture, it plays its part in a meaning that maybe we don’t even need to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But regardless of its meaning, our individual lives are built around moments, good and bad, happy and sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our experience is filled with many things but the underlying feeling we get is from the moments that we live through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking one and doing something with it is one of the rare pieces of our life that we get to control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… just a thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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