(12-15-2020, 09:30 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: I feel like life is just a series of things you love either becoming too complicated to deal with anymore, or being taken away from you entirely.
It does seem like there are constant "lessons" about letting go. Given the finite nature of organic life, the longer you live the more people that you know will die, the more relationships will end, the more transitioning will happen, so loss (which is also "change", for better or worse) is a kind of math. Take Robert Plant. His son died at five years old. Tragedy. Then Led Zep got huge and he became a rock god. Now he's old and wrinkled and bearded and the reaper has at least half the scythe up his wonderful ass. My point eludes me, but something-something-something.
I'm not Buddhist, but its core tenants seem to be designed to help navigate exactly what you're referring to, so it's a wonder why more people aren't embracing it. I guess it's because it's fucking dull (with apologies to any Buddhist reading this).
