My Moments

There are fleeting bits of time where I’m overwhelmed with emotion for my kids. I’m sincerely enthralled, in love, gut-punched, and smitten with them. I love what they say and how they say it, what they do and how they do it, the things they write and sing, and the way they skip, hop, and frolic. But life moves quickly, and sometimes I forget to mark the moment or record what happened and how it made me feel.

I want to be able to capture those moments, but not just the image or the movie; I want to be able to communicate to the future how I was struck by them. I want to be able to pin it to them so that somewhere further along they’ll be able to go back and not just see it but maybe feel how I felt.

Facet wasn’t created with this kind of posting or recording in mind, but it’s emerged as one of the ways that I use it. I post pictures and movies, but I find it more fun to post their quotes, make notes about how I feel, or post song clips of things they like so that they can see it in the future.

Beyond kids, I think that humans are beautiful creatures. Sit still in a public place long enough, and you’ll see the gamut of human emotion, fashion, proportion, expression, and it’s hard not to find beauty in those small pieces of time shared between people. These are moments as small as a wry smile between friends to long conversations where people share their souls with one another. These facets of life might mean a lot between people, and they’ll carry the pieces with them.

Often, these aren’t monetizable things; they aren’t things that likely anyone else wants to see or read; they can’t be leveraged to sell goods or services, but they’re important, and I think this is why Facet is more of a life journal than a social network. Our moments are sometimes just between us; they’re not for the world at large, and we need a place that elevates the importance on those fleeting, personal, un-monetizable points in time. I hope Facet can help with that.