Moment Connection

-Timing a Moment. . .


The world never seems to stop for anyone person, or any-one-thing for that matter.
It just simply rolls along as everything else around it fall into place...someway, somehow.

Even with certain things we all share everyday of our lives; the thing which sometimes makes us feel that it lasts forever in a both positive and negative way, the thing which gives us feelings such as hope, strength, joy and even vanity or humiliation.

We call these things 'moments'. . .

I said that the world never stops for anyone person or any-one-thing.
However, those moments that seem to last that little bit longer than you think it should, to either make your day or perhaps even ruin it. Even though THE world moves on, what about your world?
The world YOU are in, not what other people see, but what YOU as an individual sees.
Does your own personal world clock not stop at certain times in your life that makes you feel that everything has appeared to stop for you, those times when everyone may be looking right at you.
What about those times...

Dictionaries all over state/define the word "moment" differently;

- "a particular point in time"
- "an indefinitely short time"
- "here and now: at this time"

Is it just me, or do all three of the above definitions say and mean a different thing??

"a particular point in time" says to me a moment is about a time-based mind concept where somewhere on the fine detailed timeline of life; one specific 'point in time' is to be defined as a moment. Which to me explores the 'particular moment in time' not only globally but also astronomically as well.

"an indefinitely short time"....this was a definition that had me stop and think. While looking at many other definitions this was one of the only ones, which used the word 'indefinitely' to help describe and define the meaning of the word 'moment'.
by my understandings and other definitions of the word "indefinitely" says:

-"An unknown amount of time"
or
-"For a long time, no end defined; Forever"

With this meaning in the definition of "moment" tells me and possibly many others out there, that a 'moment' is something that occurs 'forever'...

Finally,
"Here and now: at this time". People say; that this definition is the same as the first....
The word 'Here' is defined in many places and resources as:

"the present location; this place"
"to this place"
"in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail"

..and such.

"Here and now: at this time" tells me that a moment is something that occurs in one particular location. To one person, a specific event may be a moment and is defined as a moment in their eyes as it happens right there "here and now: at this time".

This is true, however, the first definition will be close to my understanding of what a 'moment' is.

I like to see things as a whole. For what they really are.
I've had moments when they feel like they last for a long time. However I've noticed how, in that space of time that I have to myself, whether it be a special moment with someone, or a particular moment during a game or even a moment where you have a big long thought to yourself.
At that exact time, something else is happening around you; not just in that vicinity but the whole entire world, the universe.
The other day I stood outside the front of my house with my guitar strapped to me; I played for a few things, then stopped and looked around.
I strummed a chord and observed...
In the time it took to strum the chord on my guitar, and the pure sound resonating out to the street; I noticed a white 4wd drive very fast around a round-a-bout, a pair of women walking their terrier and golden retriever across the road, a boy throwing a Frisbee to his brother on the school grounds close to the women with the dogs, two pigeons flew in a funny pattern and landing on the electric wire above and I noticed the plastic bottle rolled onto the side of the road as the sound of the chord on my guitar diminished.

These may not be great happenings, but they are things that happened in a "particular moment", in the space of one strummed chord on a guitar, in one small area; then I tried to imagine what had happened all over the world in that same time. What happens to every chord that I strummed, will it bring happiness some places around the world, or will it bring only more deceit? If that is the case, should I strum another or leave it?
In that 'moment' many things would have happened throughout the entire world.
Wouldn't it be interesting if people could organise something to take a photo of different location, but right at the same exact moment in time, to see what was happening elsewhere in one particular moment?

I did some research and came across something.
On a Friday; 22nd August 2008. a group of participants who were in the Arab region shot a single photo at exactly 2:22 Lebanon Local time. (the number 22 was selected as it represented the number of countries in the Arab States.
The results were quite interesting, and had the sponsor of the project 'Sowar Magazine' publish and dedicate a magazine on it.

If you have the time, which everybody does. Take a look. Please.
Everybody has time to stop in their lives to notice the world. . .
It can be viewed here at :

http://issuu.com/sowarmag/docs/minute_22?mode=embed&documentId=081105031831-f243e36dc167460e841ee5fc061c87c2&layout=grey


From what I hear about people and their moments, is good and bad at the same time. People talk about a special moment with someone, when at the same they had that moment, somewhere across the ocean in a whole new society someone has lost a home, or loved one that they could have had a moment with. Perhaps are moments are what they are and we notice them as a particular event because it's different from every other second or minute of the day?
I think not, every second and every minute of the day is a moment, not just for someone or something somewhere in the universe, but for everyone as well. Something happens every second of our lives. But no one takes the time to notice, nobody will stop in their lives to realize the many things we take for granted each day by day, and each minute by minute. The loved ones that always there, the family that always care, the homes that we sleep comfortably under, the money we spend on many worthless stuff that could really be used for something elsewhere to make another persons' negative moment into a positive and memorable one.

In a single moment the world can live
In a single moment the world can give.

Today is a new day,
tomorrow will just show you the way,

to a whole new dimension if you believe,
in the all the possibilities that you can achieve.

Don't stop lurking,
but don't keep moving

because the world around,
is in need to be found.

Stop your life here and there
to discover a life that is so bare,

in money, health and love
only thing to keep them going,

is to keep looking at the skies above.


Practice Love, practice compassion.
Share it all and in a new fashion!

Practice Gratitude. and the reward you gain, is more than the world.

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