We ask too much from life. Little moments, relationships, joys, and material things – we want all of it permanently. So much that we ignore that is beyond our control.
We’re programmed to think that life is an exercise in gathering things, people, and the latest fad – experiences. None of us have the capacity to hoard every good thing that we encounter. With souvenirs, pictures, closed relationships, we have become addicted to permanence when we know life doesn’t operate that way.
This addiction causes problems that we cannot fathom.
It is hard to give up this addiction. But there has to be a start.