Hey friend, right now take five minutes with me and just breathe.

Five minutes to take some deep breaths and just be in the moment. In this moment,

I realize that there is no time in life that is worth skipping. There is nothing

worth fast-forwarding past. So let's take this moment together to bring our

minds and bodies to the same place, to feel our feet under us, the weight of our

arms at our sides and the breath in our lungs, and realize that this moment is

special. And even though it's a drop in a sea of so many more moments in life,

it reminds us of a powerful truth that in life there is no moment worth skipping.

So take a deep breath with me right now. In and out. And realize that in life,

if we are all tempted to want to skip ahead, to fast-forward, to skip the bad parts of life,

the times where we're frustrated, the times where we are hurting, the times where we are

unsure or feel lost, we want to skip those times. We want to fast-forward. But right now,

I think we can take pause and appreciate what this moment with these times have for us.

In this moment, we can appreciate that, as with a lot of things in life, we're going to move on,

but one day, we're going to inevitably look back and we're going to miss these days. You're going

to look back at certain times and crave those moments, how you felt, who you were with, what your

day looked like. And I'm sure right now you're doing just that. You're looking back at how life

used to be and you're craving it. But no matter how badly you want to skip a moment, maybe this moment,

there will come a time where you'll be older and you'll look back and you'll think of these times,

the things you're doing, the simpleness of your day, the books you're reading, the movies you're

watching, the things you're talking about with your friends, and you'll look back and you'll

appreciate it. So in this moment with me right now, take a deep breath and know that there is no

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