this moment is fragile

This moment is fragile

Handle with care

Have you ever felt a moment to be very delicate, so delicate that you are a little afraid to destroy it, just through clumsiness or inattention? These moments are precious. The moment is like a delicate flower, beautiful, and yet fragile, so easily destroyed if we do not pay attention. Such a moment demands our full presence, all our senses becoming alert, functioning at their optimum, to savour the moment, to treasure the moment, to honour the moment. And in that urge to really honour, to value the moment, of course, we do not want to destroy it. And our actions become exquisitely tuned to the moment. We are no longer responding from habit. We are no longer just repeating what we did yesterday.

This moment is worthy of our full attention. It demands us to become present and to respond authentically in the moment, not simply following a recipe, not doing what we've been told, not responding from some knowledge that we learned from a book or a teacher. A moment such as this demands that we become real.

The moment is life, and it demands us to be alive. And this being alive is something fresh and unpredictable. The moment is unique and it demands a tremendous sensitivity to feel its uniqueness, to feel the beauty in the moment, and to respond appropriately to the moment.

In truth every moment is this fragile. Every moment is worthy of our full attention. And this is the challenge that we face, to remain present, to remain real, authentic, and to respond from sensitivity to the moment.

Our modern human world does not make this easy. Many things desensitise us. Advertising is bombarding us all the time from every direction, with ever louder, more garish messages, noises, more saturated colours. All of this is desensitising. And the machinery that we have created, the endless noise of cars, the air becoming unbreathable, the water undrinkable, this too desensitises us, and the list goes on.

If we want to live, though, we have to face this challenge. We have to step aside as much as possible from these desensitising influences, and come back to ourself, come back to nature, and learn to feel once more, to feel just how fragile this moment is, and to feel the beauty in that fragility, and to care, to care for this moment tremendously. This I call love. Without it we are lost.

So let us handle with care this moment, this precious moment, this fragile moment.