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We Will Always Still Have A First Time Moment
only if we pay attention.
When we watch a kid grows, we would notice every single small development they made. We cherish and make celebration of every single step they take. We appreciate moments like when they first call us mom or dad, when they first able to stand up, when they first take their first step, when they first go to school, and so many other first moments. So many that it become an exhaustive list that keeps on having new first times added on a daily basis.
And so, when did this stop? Why, when we grow up, we stop appreciate our first time moment when the truth is as we keep on growing up every day, we will always have a first time moment.
I tried to incorporate a small exercise when writing my daily journal where I would notice the first time moments I had that day and it made me more grateful with life than I ever had. I started to notice a small details we often neglect and not appreciate it at all.
There are some big and easily noticable first time moments, indeed. For me it was things like first time going umra together with my husband, first time seeing a zebra snake on the ocean floor when I snorkle, or first time walking 25,000 steps a day. As those things repeats, I am not as appreciating it as when it first happened when the truth is, there will never be the exact…
