Episode Details

What do you actually remember of your life? Not the years. Just the moments.

I have done five hundred miles round Cornwall in my electric wheelchair this year, and what I have kept from it is moments. Everything is stored that way. I met a man who told me about being flown to Salisbury at eighteen, and I had been in that same tight space, chewing my knees, and suddenly it was like I had known him all my life. The ones that shaped me most are the rock bottoms. That is why I cry easily now, and I do not think that is a fault.

One thing to try: Build one moment on purpose today with somebody. In twenty years it will matter more than the day did.

In this episode

• (1:26) Everything is stored as moments
• (2:53) The dog and the gate he never forgot
• (4:01) Eighteen years old, flown to Salisbury
• (5:18) Two moments connected, and a stranger I had known all my life
• (6:29) The afternoon with the toy car that will matter in twenty years
• (7:35) The ones that shaped me were the rock bottoms
• (8:48) Why I cry now, and why that is not a fault
• (11:49) Collect the good ones. Learn from the rest

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