Most things are valued only after they are lost. The brooding over the memories and thinking of the imagined future with the lost things makes us weary. Money,relationships,time,opportunities,health we spend a lot of energy brooding over our losses. But in the process we loose our precious life energy without gaining back anything that’s already lost.
I have taken a lot for granted without any gratitude, sometimes even grudging the presence of some things. But it’s worth taking a break thinking of life without them, imagining the loss while there is time and learning from other people’s losses by empathizing with them. It helps value things in life, put them in their proper place.
Then there is the ultimate loss waiting for all of us of life itself: Death. It’s the loss of all our memories, of our body, possessions, ideas, thoughts, everything that we have held important all our lives. Many of us avoid the thought of it until it stares it in our face. But like all other losses, it’s probably a good idea to not wait for it but to start evaluating our lives while we are still healthy and alive.
I have taken a lot for granted without any gratitude, sometimes even grudging the presence of some things. But it’s worth taking a break thinking of life without them, imagining the loss while there is time and learning from other people’s losses by empathizing with them. It helps value things in life, put them in their proper place.
Then there is the ultimate loss waiting for all of us of life itself: Death. It’s the loss of all our memories, of our body, possessions, ideas, thoughts, everything that we have held important all our lives. Many of us avoid the thought of it until it stares it in our face. But like all other losses, it’s probably a good idea to not wait for it but to start evaluating our lives while we are still healthy and alive.
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