You Will Lose Everything (And That is a Good Thing)

“Train yourself to let go… of everything you fear to lose.”

-Yoda

How to embrace change is not always easy to answer, yet change is inevitable.

We humans tend to cling to practically everything: things, places, people and emotions; and this is the reason why today has become so difficult to embrace change. Such a bad habit.

But we cannot avoid change. It will happen, whether we like it or not.

Let It Go

Everything we have and own will be gone sooner or later. We will leave the places we love and someday we won’t be able to see the people we care about. All our material possessions will be gone too.

This might seem a rather depressing view; however, I find it to be very powerful. When we realize that all we have, physically and emotionally, is temporary, I believe we can appreciate it better.

When you think that a particularly important person in your life will be gone someday, or that you will be out of his/her life (and this is inevitable) you might feel anxiety at first, but if you get pass that, an immediate feeling of love invades you and an urge to make time count is inevitable. This is the way our relationships should feel all the time, because change is inevitable and the truth is that someday they will be gone.

Accepting the inevitability of change also help us realize the mortality of material possessions and subconsciously accepting our own mortality.

Realize that all you have, all the things you have accumulated over the year will be gone some day too. Everything will be gone and forgotten and there is nothing you can do to avoid it. You can spend your life gathering more things, more awards, more badges and yet the only things that will matter to you at the end of your life will be the memories, the experiences and the emotions evoked.

Live Now

Embrace change today, and accept it is inevitable, that everything you have will be gone. Learn to appreciate your now, learn to love those around you today.