“The Moment”

…..and the moment came and then disappeared almost instantly…..followed by the next…..and the next…..and all those moments disappeared in her wake with little fanfare and no more permanence than the misty contrail a jet airplane leaves behind high in the stratosphere to mark its ephemeral presence. And she wondered right then about how purists always chide everyone to “Live in the moment!!” and “Live life to the fullest!!”  She questioned how you could live your life in “the moment” if you never even knew when that moment started and when it ended……and even though she knew for a fact that it MUST theoretically exist…..it disappeared with such fleeting swiftness and elusiveness that one never had any time to actually enjoy it and make plans over what to do with this super slippery little particle of time before it disappeared and the next one magically appeared in its stead.  She knew “the moment” and “the present” were the same thing–interchangeable entities, inarguably–but in her mind the million dollar question centered over what to do with the infernal things?!  Both of them–“the moment” and “the present”–were here and gone before you knew it, hence “living within the moment” made no more sense to her than struggling to understand the birth of our universe or living one’s entire life with a blanket pulled over your head…..