Our lives are full of big and little moments. Little moments that lead up to big moments or moments that we thought were little at the time but looking back, they were actually pretty big moments. Those are often our favorite ones. The ones we didn’t realize were the big moments. And if we are lucky, we were able to catch those unknown big moments in a picture for us to look back at and smile upon one day. Sometimes wishing we knew then what we know now.

One of my most favorite unknown big moments happened the week before I lost my leg. Nothing especially particular happened to me that day, but it will always be a landmark day to me. It was my cousins wedding day. A big moment for them. But to me, it was the day that the last photograph of me was taken where you can see me standing on my own two legs. I’m so thankful that I rounded up my sisters that night to snap a quick picture. I mean it wasn’t often that we were all dressed up and together in the same place. That’s what we thought we were documenting. If we only knew then what we knew now. If we would’ve known that that was going to be the last time that we could’ve square danced together, we would have. If I would’ve know that would be my last time to spin my then 10 month old son around the dance floor, I would have. If I would’ve know that that would be the last time I would be able to go through a food line without having my husband there to carry my plate, I would have piled that plate a mile high no matter how unladylike it looked. But what can I say? Hind sight is 20/20.

How many times have you turned down an opportunity to do something because you are too tired, or because you were afraid you’d look silly because you don’t quite know what you’re doing? I mean we can come up with a MILLION reasons not to do something. If any one of you reading this isn’t thinking of a time or two when you did this, you’re lying. We all have done it. I mean we will always have tomorrow to do something or the next wedding to dance at. Right? But why is it so hard to come up with 1 reason to do that opportunity in that moment. Are we really that big of Negative Nancy’s? Or are we just a group of people that the reason “because it’s fun” isn’t good enough? In reality, we need to surround ourselves with more people who answer questions with “because it’s fun” or “just because”. Actually we should aspire to be those people. Make sure their is never a dull moment in the little moments of our everyday lives. If you choose to be on the positive side of the answer “just because”, I promise you won’t live a mediocre life.

Now this post isn’t about regrets. That then little moment, now big moment night was FULL of fun. I mean without that night, I wouldn’t have gotten one of my most favorite pictures in the world. However, this post is about not waiting till tomorrow. This post about answering the question of why we are doing something with a simple “because it’s fun”. This post is about going square dancing right now despite the fact you always have to pull your husband out there. This post is about seizing the moment, if you will, and capturing it. Do not give yourself the opportunity to regret anything. I mean don’t spend so much time behind your phone taking the picture that you aren’t ever in one. But please, PLEASE take the time to capture the genuine smiles in the midst of the little moments. Because though those moments are not as big in size, they often tell the best stories.

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