"Moment 4 Life" is a song by rapper Nicki Minaj, featuring Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on December 7, 2010 by Young Money, Cash Money, and Universal Motown as the fourth single from Minaj's debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010). The song was produced by T-Minus and written by both artists. Sonically, it is a hip hop song that lyrically relates to maintaining a feeling of accomplishment and enjoying the moment.

During a session from the Pink Friday Diaries, Minaj discussed the song in detail, adding a background story to the original song.[2] "Moment 4 Life is about 2 kids that grew up on the same block. They shared their dreams of making it as rappers. They laughed together, they cried together. One day they realize that their dreams have come to fruition. Though they know all things come to an end, they celebrate. They wish that they could have this moment 4 Life."[2] Lyrically the song is about a desire to maintain a feeling of accomplishment, as Drake follows behind Minaj and raps the same theme of enjoying the moment.[3] "Straying away from the standard rap song construction of three verses and a hook, Nicki performs a brain-dump of sorts on the track, spitting as if she's making a speech to both her fans and detractors."[4]

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The video for "Moment 4 Life" premiered on January 27, 2011, at 7:54 pm ET on MTV alongside an interview with Minaj.[20] The video takes part in a type of Minaj-assisted fairy tale from a book.[21] The video begins with Minaj sitting by a boudoir as Martha Zolanski appears as Minaj's fairy godmother. After discussing how Roman and Slim Shady have been sent to boarding school, Martha informs Nicki that this kind of fairy tale is different from ones she's seen, stating "These kinds of nights are fleeting and usually end by mid-night. But my fairy god mother senses tell me that you may have this moment for life." The song begins as Martha gifts Minaj with a special pair of heels.[21] During Minaj's verse she is seen walking into a ballroom as she is spotted by Drake. When the two meet in a hall, Drake performs his verse with Minaj by a fireplace. During the climax of the song, Drake and Minaj walk down the aisle, where they share a wedding kiss by fireworks as the clock strikes midnight.

[The song] is about 2 kids that grew up on the same block. They shared their dreams of making it as rappers. They laughed together, they cried together. One day they realize that their dreams have come to fruition. Though they know all things come to an end, they celebrate. They wish that they could have this moment 4 LIFE. Oh yeah barbz, Moment 4 Life features Drake! I was really looking forward to our collaboration and it lived up to every one of my expectations.

We are deeply afraid that we have wasted some of our precious units of life, or that we might waste them in the future, so we construct myriad apparatuses to protect us from such failures. Or, at least, to convince ourselves that we have not failed. If you can look back on the year and point to the many things you Achieved or Did or Instagrammed then you can let out a deep sigh of relief that you did not waste it. The year is gone, but you get a gold star for how you spent it.

The more we focus on these bookmarks though, the more we are stuck living ad interim. We judge moments as either a significant bookmark in time, or a means to some future bookmark. Most of our time is judged as a period that must be passed through until we reach the bookmark, or a period that must be spent to earn the next bookmark. Waiting and working.

If I interrupted that joy to create bookmarks out of some slavish obligation to my future self, I would be doing both of us a great disservice. I would be interrupting my enjoyment of these beautiful moments by chasing Bigger and Better ones. And I would be condemning my future self to continue the grind of bookmark chasing.

I have a complicated relationship with this mentality because, on the one hand, it afforded me the life I have now. One that I\u2019m very grateful for. But on the other hand, it created an adversarial stance towards work. A stance that\u2019s codified in the myth of \u201Cwork life balance.\u201D

\u201CThe irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.\u201D - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

We are all living with a similar glaze over our eyes. As long as time is a resource to be properly allocated, we must be assessing the success of the moment we\u2019re in. And as long as we are doing that, it is impossible to enjoy the moment as much as possible. The only moments we end up fully enjoying are the ones which are so obviously Good that the evaluation hum shuts off. We get wrenched out of our assessment and forced into presence.

\u201C\u2026most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived.\u201D - Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

An eventful life is memorable, and the more memorable a period of our lives is, the longer it feels in retrospect. But the events that create the bookmarks of our life are not always the times we enjoy most, and often they\u2019re out of our control. Some percentage of the appeal of travel is that it creates a signpost. It\u2019s an easy way for us to extend our perception of time.

\u201COur lives seem to live us, to possess their own bizarre momentum, to carry us away; in the end we feel we have no choice or control over them. Of course we feel bad about this sometimes, we have nightmares and wake up in a sweat, wondering: \\\"What am I doing with my life?\\\" But our fears only last until breakfast time; out comes the briefcase, and back we go to where we started.\u201D - Soygal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

But I love it. I fucking love it. Sometimes I fight it, my mind wanders and I start imagining some other life. A bigger house, a nicer yard, more books. But the more I learn to stop judging the time spent and simply pay close attention to whatever I\u2019m doing, the more I enjoy it. 

Life isn\u2019t in the memories of past bookmarks, nor is it in the future ones you hope to come. It\u2019s entirely in this very moment. And it\u2019s only possible to fully enjoy the moment if you are not judging it.

So therein lies the joy in my sadness. I\u2019m part of the way there. I love my life, and I\u2019m getting better at not chasing bookmarks, but I still feel some fear of wasted time. Some guilt from prioritizing joy over trophies.

Has anyone ever asked you what the craziest moment in your life is? Well, the average person probably spits back a response about the time they went skydiving or a time they experimented with drugs. My response is a little different.

Yesterday I was hijacked by an overwhelming moment of stress and anxiety. And, as I was overcome with the enormity of everything going on in our world today, I felt my whole mind/body complex succumb to the emotional chaos. I felt it, it felt horrible, and I saw my whole world through the lens of that chaos.

Thankfully, I remembered a similar past experience of emotional upheaval, the moment of full presence that followed, and how that moment changed my life. That moment taught me a lesson I will never forget, and that lesson often resurfaces during times of trouble. It reminds me how a moment of pause, a deep and full presence, and an intentional engagement in connection, can change a moment, a day, and a life.

I ran into my dad. We both taught for the same department at the university, but because I always came in from the other side, I almost never saw him. He was teaching a golf class, on the grass fields, in the rain. I had no idea he had a class in that space or at that time. I cannot explain exactly what happened at the instant that I saw him; all I can say is that sometimes life intervenes, makes magic, and offers heart-to-heart connections with another that are impossible to put into words. This was one of them.

Although I was peripherally aware that my class was still waiting, being fully present in this moment with my father seemed more important. I dropped all my bags and playfully held the umbrella for him as if he were a king and the most important person in the world. I will never forget that moment of genuine eye contact, full presence, and heart-to-heart engagement. He laughed. I laughed. His class laughed. The rain became a downpour, and he excused his golfers for drier conditions. 0852c4b9a8

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