Do you have memories from times in your life where you can remember everything from that moment in time? Maybe it was a significant moment in your life, or maybe just an experience that you treasure.
Some people always bring a camera with them during vacations and they snap photos of everything they think is interesting. Other people carry the camera but never take it out. Maybe there is nothing wrong with just allowing yourself to take it all in. Take a picture with your "mind's eye" and store it away forever.
I have so many of these moments and I can play them in my mind anytime I want. It is almost like I can go back in time and live it over again.
Give it a try, close your eyes and go back to one of YOUR moments. See it, smell it, feel it.
I have some favorite moments to remember...
Walking into your grandparents home, the different smell, all the treasured old items from their life. The stories that you have heard before but would give anything to hear again.
Sitting in your first car and realizing you can go anywhere you want. It doesn't matter how old or beat up the car, I swear I can still feel the seat beneath me now.
Going brook fishing with my father, picking our way through the woods to secret fishing holes. The moss covered forest floor was so soft, and the branches would catch the line of the fishing pole so I would stop to un-tangle it. That vibration of the first bite from a fish and the excited yell "I got one!"
Climbing mountains and enjoying that moment when I reach the peak and stop to take in everything around me. The cold of the sweat on my back when I removed my pack and sat down onto the uneven granite.
I would never trade these memories for a photograph.
Some people always bring a camera with them during vacations and they snap photos of everything they think is interesting. Other people carry the camera but never take it out. Maybe there is nothing wrong with just allowing yourself to take it all in. Take a picture with your "mind's eye" and store it away forever.
I have so many of these moments and I can play them in my mind anytime I want. It is almost like I can go back in time and live it over again.
Give it a try, close your eyes and go back to one of YOUR moments. See it, smell it, feel it.
I have some favorite moments to remember...
Walking into your grandparents home, the different smell, all the treasured old items from their life. The stories that you have heard before but would give anything to hear again.
Sitting in your first car and realizing you can go anywhere you want. It doesn't matter how old or beat up the car, I swear I can still feel the seat beneath me now.
Going brook fishing with my father, picking our way through the woods to secret fishing holes. The moss covered forest floor was so soft, and the branches would catch the line of the fishing pole so I would stop to un-tangle it. That vibration of the first bite from a fish and the excited yell "I got one!"
Climbing mountains and enjoying that moment when I reach the peak and stop to take in everything around me. The cold of the sweat on my back when I removed my pack and sat down onto the uneven granite.
I would never trade these memories for a photograph.
