Turning points

If my life to this point was a movie, this weekend would have been the climax.

It had a little bit of everything. Romance, drama, mystery; a whole lotta comedy. It even had a wedding.

But life's no movie. There is no climax. Just a bunch of scenes.

Far too often, we treat life like something we see in a theater. We watch the tear-jerking weddings and settle for the words "happily ever after" as the happy couple rides off into the sunset and the credits roll.

But the reality is that life doesn't just fade away into ambiguous and eternal Joy after that climatic event. You've heard during hard times that the sun will always come out tomorrow. Well that goes the same for the good times too.

My own personal view of this was shattered after reading the book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. It was written by Donald Miller. I honestly don't remember much of it. But the main thing I did get out of it was that life doesn't have a specific turning point that you just know is the biggest moment of your life while it is happening. And even if you do find yourself in moments like that, there is always more life to live tomorrow, when that moment will not much more than a memory.

At first I was depressed at this conclusion. Kind of still am I guess. It makes the big moments in life seem not so big. But at the same time, it gives so much more value to the times of our lives that we may be tempting to label as unimportant and insignificant. Sometimes I just want to fastforward my life to times that I can only dream about, but remembering this important lesson will make me appreciate the here and now more.