Tannishblog

I contemplate loss this week. Not because I have lost a loved one, thankfully, but because I have been laid off from my job. Things come and then they go. I am at peace.

Sure there’s a family relying on my tepid ability to bring money into the house. I can still do that, will again when conditions arise. That will be soon because I am at peace. Things come and they go; peace is eternal.

While an earlier version of me would mourn the loss of a conceptual construct, through anger, resentment, denial, then finally acceptance, there is a shorter route. Why not go from loss straight to acceptance? Things com and go. That is the Nature of Things…

I do not worry because what was lost can be found, because what was lost is ephemeral, insubstantial, weightless. I wonder if it is real at all. It can be regained through a peaceful spirit, through patience.

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

               ~  William James

No longer fear and loathing. Only peace and acceptance. And the understanding that I have lost nothing…. really.