Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Musgara and in today's episode we're going to talk about treasuring the

unrepeachable nature of a moment. More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So in today's episode I want to share a Japanese idiom with you.

It's pronounced Chigochia, and it's meant to describe a cultural concept of

treasuring the unrepetable nature of a moment. I don't know about you, but the first time I heard that it landed nicely in my whole system,

treasuring the unrepedable nature of a moment.

There's something in that that I think connects us to the preciousness of a moment.

We could think of this, of course, in relationship to the positive moments,

time with friends, family, events, a graduation, a promotion, you know these things that have their own particular texture and experience and details and nuances that

they're not going to arise in the same way again.

There's an unrepetable nature to every moment.

And I think we often experience it most vividly

in those positive moments where there's a sense of

like really longing for this to last and knowing that that it will change as

everything does but the recognition of it changing allows us to appreciate it that much more deeply.

Time with family, kids, the different stages of a relationship, the beginning where there's

excitement, enthusiasm, lust, maybe a more matured relationship where there's a deep companionship or a new

exploration of romanticism. Every stage of our life has different moments, and every moment is unrepentable.

But I think we can also take this perspective with the difficult events.

I think the default relationship to this when thinking about it,

the difficult events through the lands of Chigochia is like oh good yeah this is an

unrepetable moment it's not going to arise like this and it gives us some relief

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