My sweet girl created a collage of 2020 by condensing a split second of every day into one video. Little did she know that in 2020 we would survive a pandemic, national lockdown, two major hurricanes and evacuations, two new babies born into our family, and the loss of Opa. On January 2020 she made a split second decision to show-up for the next 365 days of 2020.
Her father said, "Man, that's dedication." And I hadn't thought of it that way. Such a simple thing really. Open the app and take a one second video. But anyone who has done one knows it isn't "that simple". That's the simple part, the fun part. The hard part is in the showing up for 365 days of remembrance and thinking that it is worth continuing.
Most of life is that way.
Chels said when we went into quarantine in March 2020 she thought "Well, this is a bust" and almost quit doing it. I mean, what do you take videos of when you're confined to your living room with the same people day after day? You take pictures of life, that's what you do. It's those little things. Such little things. That come together to create life.
Oma and I have talked ad nauseam about how much the little things have touched us this past week. Small things about Opa have brought the most tears. His dying breath was a split second but brought the greatest grief. All those many seconds of every day have brought us through a whole week since Opa has passed. Those new babies are now 8 months and 5 months old. We think it's the big events in our life that scale larger, and they do, but if weighed on life's scale, the little things would outweigh the big things. They are what makes the larger impact. Watching the grandkids doesn't define me, but it matters. My husband giving me a kiss every morning and night doesn't define him (or maybe it does 🤔), but it matters. The small things family and friends did for us this past week doesn't define them, but it mattered.
That's what life is...it's a ticking and tocking of split second happenings everyday of our lives that bleed a life of whatever we create and whatever we make of it. It's life that happens every second, every day of our lives...even when we are sleeping.
By persevering for 366 days, because 2020 was a leap year, she created a mere six minute video of life and love well-mixed and a reminder that in a year's time so much more happens than what meets the eye. But those seconds count, they matter, they build, they are the heartbeats that bleed life into tomorrow.
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