Remembering how not to forget :

I find that the more I exist, the more I recognize my need for the documentation of life, not necessarily on a grand scale, but living moment by moment. It is the necessary practice of not only remembering the little things, but experiencing them as they happen - to merely be, to affirm that we are being, not yesterday, not tomorrow, but as I am writing this, as you are reading this. It is taking the time to realize that what we are doing, thinking, and experiencing now is what makes our lives continue to come and go from those points and places. Where you have been is what has brought you to now, and where you are now will bring you to where you will be. The thought process seems simplistic, but once pondered, reminds me to pause, to cease existing for what was or is to come, but for what merely is.

Making note of each individual effort, grasping at fleeting thoughts before they disappear, capturing a memory in my mind's eye, preserving people as I perceive them, and being reminded that each breath I breathe is, in itself, an epic of my existence.

These are my words as far as, I'm concerned. If I choose to borrow some, it will be noted.

In the words of  someone very dear to me, a student and teacher of equal parts life and death, however borrowed they may be:

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.