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Hey, you,
yes, you over there,
feeding the cat or
washing the evening’s dishes,
listen up to what I say,
the moment that you are in
will never come again,
cats will be fed and
dishes will be washed., 
but each time this happens,
however mundane it might be,
will also be a different and distinct act
something only you of 109 billion people
who have walked the earth before you
and the billions who will sweep you away
when the time is right
have done it exactly as you are doing
and it will become a part of your past,
that vast tightly locked vault
of things both large and small
that you've done
and that have been done to you,
the ingredients of the you
you are,
so celebrate these moments of the past
now in the present
as you would a newborn child
before they cede their diminished import
to the uncertain future,
seize the moment
before the moment is gone.

Seize the Moment