It’s only one moment. What can it matter?

• All too often, it’s long enough to disrupt the perfect opportunity for a first kiss.
• In a race, it can make the difference between a gold medal and last place.
• It’s just enough time to lose that great idea.
• One moment can determine whether the game-tying shot lands in the basket just in the nick of time or too late.
• “Excuse me. Can you please spare a moment,” is long enough for an unexpected sales pitch to cost you a good deal of cash.
• You might wait for it all of your life, while you pass millions of others by.
• For light, it may make a difference of a million miles.
• When you’re bored out of your mind, it becomes incredibly long.
• But when you’re having the time of your life, it’s gone before you know it.
• That’s all it takes to lose your temper.
• On the way to the emergency room, it can make the difference between life and death.
• In an apocalyptic novel, it will save the entire planet and all of civilization.
• A moment could be that critical stage between too soon and too late.
• It’s short enough to forget, yet long enough to savor.

A moment. So short. Yet sometimes so long.

Some of those moments are the most precious of our lives.