it's about time

I almost forgot

...about the way you used to touch me.

You can leave a place, thinking you'll never go back.

you said goodbye to the past.

and even when those people come back in, you remember,

but you're at a different time and in a different place

And it's funny to think about it and laugh to yourself

life is just so weird.

"Life" is not alloted time slots, it's existence as a whole.

Time is not: I worked 8 hours, slept 8 hours, and then played with the kids some

Time is filling space with meaningful interaction and gaining knowledge

while you have time here on earth.

To think about time in the form of 24 hours is just impractical.

Time is eternal, everlasting, never ends.

It just changes, yet is the only thing consistent.

If you were given 5 minutes of earth life with someone

what do you say to them? This whole world - is filled with opportunities

which are numbered and counted because, well,

humanity depends on numbers. Pretend for a second

that we didn't live on a timeline - that existence just "is."

The past created us, but it's gone and the future is blank space

Today - not 24 hours - but today being our capacity to take action

is all that matters. Our "future" doesn't matter because it can change

so quickly depending on our actions right now.

Photography helps me capture existence as a whole.

It's never about the one picture

It's about a cumulation of photographs that tell a story.

No, I do not have one favorite picture.

We choose our story in the choices we make

There is no fate - just right or wrong choices made by you, and everyone else.

If fate exists, it's God following up on his promises.

I think someone told me that once.

Today, a friend went through the temple in preparation for her wedding tomorrow

Another friend is expecting his first child.

My brother is serving a mission in Brazil

while my other brother is learning what it means to grow up, in the 10th grade.

One friend just got her RN degree

while another just finished her first year away from home.

He is going through a divorce and redefining himself

He doesn't even think he needs to change.

A normal, capable being wants to live a fulfilling life of love and achievement.

Feeling useful does something to the human heart that encourages us

to fight for life. Yet we do it on our own time and in our own way.

We are all different people in different places

We are all creating stories

about how we came to earth and lived.

We will have to replay this story again - and we better be prepared

to convey ... time well spent.

even if it was spent differently.

personally, I hate hearing the same story over and over.