Not everything is a teachable moment. There is not a lesson in everything. Sometimes, it is more important to just exist in the moment, being a part of the moment, changing the moment as it changes you.
We've become too hung up on everything having some lesson, some meaning, some discernible truth that we just have to filter out like prospectors panning for gold. Journalists ask "So what can we learn from this?" in interviews. Politicians build policy around "lessons learned". Books are built tearing down minute statistics into some nugget that we're supposed to learn.
All, in spite of doing. Being.
Sometimes, moments and events have no lesson. A parent dies. You win the lottery. You're hit by another car at an intersection. Your cancer goes into remission. These are the big moments in life. The important ones that sometimes lead to real change. And they may never yield a thing for you to learn from.
Instead, they're just a moment for you to live in. To be transformed in.
To be in.
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