You don’t lose anything, you just restore it
I’m going back to a book that really captivated me, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, there is a chapter in the book where he talks about the appropriate way of facing a loss.
You never loss anything, you never own anything, you just borrowed it for an amount of time, for a reason, and then you restore it.
Our egoistic thinking makes us think that all that we face or have belongs to us, but the reality is that the only things that really belong to us are our ideas and our attitudes towards the exterior.
The material world and the way we can interact with it make us think that we own it
Can you decide whether that thing that you are holding on to will last forever or that it won’t get deteriorated or even destroyed with time?.
We can’t decide that. Time is passing by and changing the world, it might be a week or a year it doesn’t matter, things come and go, and we do ourselves a favor by thinking that we weren’t entitled to anything we were just lucky to be on the same fate of that thing we are enjoying, be grateful by that, and then restore it…
You took this material form in the world made out of bones and flesh when it’s time you will restore it to the ground in a different way, and it’s time for that to get transformed by the earth (if you want to get buried) into nutrients that a plant can use for a certain amount of time and then restore it in the form of oxygen. The cycle goes on and it’s constantly happening, everything is mutating to a different thing, everything is being taken and restored.
You are never entitled to anything, you have borrowed it, be ready to restore it when it’s time.
