There’s this brief moment, maybe sixty seconds in duration, where a sunrise is so brilliant, it takes your breath away. Fractals of a thousand different colors.
And it’s not every sunrise either. Right? It’s only occasional sunrises and the moment is so beautiful you notice how amazing it is. And if you don’t stop and look at it, you’ll miss it. Because the sun is always moving, so that brilliance only lasts about 60 seconds.
It’s not permanent. But you want it to be.
If I look away or do something else for a minute, then I go back to enjoy the sunrise but I look back and it’s gone.
It might still be pretty but that brilliance doesn’t last forever. We want them to. We want that beauty to be permanent. We want that enjoyment or enthusiasm to last.
But it doesn’t. And if we don’t stop and enjoy it for what it is and live in that moment, we’ll never get that back.
I feel like so many of us have these things in our lives that we wish were permanent. We want them to last forever. Because they’re so brilliant and so incredible. And we look away and we do other things and we busy ourselves and then the moment passes.
We waste a lot of that brilliance on wishing it could last forever or on doing other things or on trying to make the brilliance more brilliant.
This is the case with so many authors and with this industry. Maybe about particular moments in my business or in some relationships or in anything where the brilliance of that moment of beauty is so arresting. And I forget to enjoy that brilliance while it’s happening, because I’m so busy or I’m so obsessed with the next moment or of making it more brilliant or more beautiful and I don’t recognize that at some point, every brilliance peaks and passes and every beauty peaks and passes and no moment or thing or person or relationship or business or era—nothing is permanent.
Everything will pass and everything will fade and especially the seasons, every season will fade and if we don’t enjoy the seasons for what they are and get every moment and soak in every moment of that brilliance, we lose it.
Yeah, it’s not going to last. Nothing lasts. Everything in this world is impermanent. And if you don’t enjoy the moment while you have it or if you aren’t present in the moment when it’s there to be had you’ll always look away from the sunrise and then find yourself wishing you’d sat in it for longer and paid attention to it for longer when it was brilliant.
Or you burn your eyes staring at the sun when it crests the horizon. Hoping to get the brilliance back.
Enjoy the brilliance, my friends. Sit in it. Hold the people who matter to you through it.
Much love to you all.
– Becca