The single moment that matters the most.

"What is the most impactful experience in the average American's life?"

     Finding something to live for.
     It's what we all strive to do and some of us never can do. But when that moment comes, you know; there's never a doubt in your mind that this is what you want to spend your life doing.
There are a lot of things that it can be. I thought mine was journalism, but I've realized that it's not. However, I will still spend my life writing, coping with the reality that I will never on this earth spend my time with what matters most.
     The desire is unmatched.
     The most impactful experience an average person can have is sometimes missing out on an experience. Missing out on a party, missing out on raising your baby, missing out on loving God. Those moments that you don't experience have eternal impacts that most people will never comprehend.
     There are a lot of things that it could be but probably is not, like marrying your high school sweetheart or getting a promotion you dedicated years to.
     In most cases, it doesn't last long. The moment that changes you most is like a shooting star, intense in its origin but soon gone. Never gone, though.
     "The little things? The little moments? They aren't little," said John Kabat-Zinn, professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
     Zinn isn't a famous poet or author. Rather, he is an average person emphasizing the phenomenal impacts of little moments.
     They seem insignificant, they could have maybe even gone unnoticed. They didn't though, and that's never an accident. That little thing was noticed and allowed to then become what matters most in life. It happens like that.
     When you find something to live for, if you are lucky enough that it does not slip away, do not let it go. That passion will never again be matched by anything in this life.