2019年10月19日
The Big Moments
It's 3:00am and honestly I can't sleep. My sleeping habits have been off since I've been battling a nasty cold. Just as I am feeling better, I get a deeply saddening call regarding a family member. Suddenly getting a good night's sleep is just a passing thought. Now I'm staring at my computer screen starting to feel rather helpless.
Instantly a quote from an old TV series named "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" pops in my head. "Buffy..." was a popular American show in the late 90s about a girl monster slayer. There was this one particular scene that always struck a cord in me. In this scene a character named Whistler starts discussing life and the painful, unexpected surprises it brings. The quote went like this:
"“Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
Somehow that quote always manages to bring me extreme comfort. It reminds me that challenges will always be there but we aren't helpless to them. Big moments can have us falling but we can get back up. No matter how the outcome looks, we can slowly or quickly navigate through the rubble. That's when we find out that we can endure so many things. We can overcome anything!
