Driving home from an amusement park this past weekend, I looked at one of my friends and replayed a moment for him as the Spotify queue loaded up the next song.
“I meant what I said when we were on our way up to the top of that last roller coaster…”
“…Use that moment to never forget the weekend.”
And he looked at me, turned down the volume of the song that started playing and said, “I appreciate that man. But you know what? I don’t think that’s gonna be the moment that triggers the memory of the weekend for me…”
He said, “There’s this quote I love from the movie Up that goes, ‘That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.’ And I think the same is true for me, too…”
“…What I’m going to remember are the ways we passed time while waiting for hours in lines for rides, the way we spent our time the night before we even got to the amusement park, the inside jokes that spontaneously arrived throughout.”
“…What I’m going to remember is The Propaganda Of Big Goop.”
And we both laughed wildly.
And the fact that you don’t know why is exactly what I think he’s talking about.
…It all happened in a boring moment outside of a bathroom when we were stopped for a food break on our roadtrip. And not when we were at one of the peak adrenaline moments of the whole weekend trip.
…And I suspect the same might be true for you, too, if you look a little closer at the cherished moments of your life.