The Art of Letting Go
Enjoy what you have today, but don’t expect it to last forever.
Hello dear friend,
Here’s a thought that struck me today-
My favourite restaurants from 10 years ago are now dilapidated old buildings where nobody ever goes.
The musicians I used to obsess over, no longer make new songs today.
The same is true for everything in our life. What you had 10 years ago, you probably no longer do. And what you have today, you most certainly won’t have it again 10 years down the line.
Happiness and achievements in human life are fleeting.
The key to survive it all? Detachment.
Enjoy what you have today, but don’t expect it to last forever.
The same is true for sadness. It will certainly pass. No matter how convinced you are that you’ll never move on, time will make the wounds hurt less.
Turns out, the Stoics from ancient Rome had figured this out so many centuries ago.
Which brings me to another thought-
If I figured out what Marcus Aurelius had 1800 years ago, maybe someone else had the same thoughts 4000 years ago.
As humans, we lose so much of our history every few years. Every problem we face today, we could learn the lessons from history if we wanted to.
But we’re so wrapped up in our present, it’s hard to look for lessons in the past.
If you resonated with this thought, let me share an article I wrote a few weeks ago, inspired by “The Riyria Revelations” by Michael J Sullivan. (Note: The article is free to read, and you don’t have to read the books to make sense of the article).
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With love,
Anangsha.