Your Life is More than a Moment

Looking at a single beat—whether of a heartbeat, a moment, or a lifetime—is only an attempted encapsulation of a moving, living target. The frequency of rhythm, like that of a heartbeat on a monitor, is ever-moving, with mostly smooth, rolling waves, like that of the ocean. Occasional jagged peaks or slow, low sinus rhythms may be detected, but be assured: it keeps moving.

This is the same with all—life, experiences, feelings. Attempting to capture or contain any particular feeling, moment, or period of your life’s symphony is like trying to hold one small section of the heartbeat, or a single slice of the symphonic music playing. It would change, or not clearly define the whole.

You can look at any section or point of life—of a graph, of a musical tone—and attempt to define it by a single note or blip on the screen, but it would be impossible. That is the same with your life.

No one act, period, or definition of your life defines the whole of you or your being. It flows. It moves. And each note, each act—whether above the line or below the confines of the bars of music, or the graph on which your heartbeat is monitored—does not define the whole.

Attempting to do so is like trying to collect water with a sieve; it can’t be done—and why would you even try?

Back up and purvey the whole. It is beautiful—in the highs and the lows, in the flow of it all.

You are beautiful in your totality. Nothing defines you.

So keep moving. Keep flowing. And know that it all makes up the whole that is your symphony of life.