Every day there are people suffering worse setbacks than losing their two favorite cats. Some of those people probably live in my neighborhood. I could have much worse problems myself, and I do remind myself to be grateful that my life is so calm and unruffled.
Everything is impermanent, as I've written here a dozen times. All any of us actually has is the exact moment in which we live. Everything else - memories of the past and expectations of the future - are just tiny electrical impulses zipping around in our heads. Even the concept of 'we' - or 'I' - is something of an illusion, as is the concept of a pet or a loved one being some sort of distinct separate entity.
The planets move around the stars, the galaxies spin and sail through the night.
The wheel turns.
2 comments:
Why is it that knowing all is impermenent still feels like a shock or emotional jolt when faced with a sudden loss?
Meshing the two, the mind and emotion, isn't so easy sometimes.
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Clearly everybody deals with loss and disappointment. Sometimes I think we all have the same feelings, they just come attached to different events.
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