So I was in my brand new super comfortable bed reading before bed last night. I'm very happy with my new bed, my previous one of 4 years being a $199 Wall-Mart special that came in a box all rolled up
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Maybe we constantly have to juggle letting go and being open to change, but still have to maintain some sameness so that we don't become meaningless. In one of the books we had to read for philosophy 101 in college, they mentioned something about a river never having the same water flowing through it yet it still remained the same river. I must have liked that since I remember it over 10 years later.
So it's cool to embrace change and self-transformation, etc., but it's just a fact of being human that we also like sameness and self. Hence losing your bed was perceived by you as a major loss of some seemingly permanent aspect of Self. But it'll be ok! I've had no issues with ned beds but for the past few years I had a beloved winter hat. That hat *was* me. I lost it just last year because that's just what happens to winter gear. And all this season I've been wearing hat after hat, trying to find new The Hat, and none of them feel right. But eventually I'm sure I'll grow to love one of these new hats I've picked out.
Oh- I've never had The Mittens before, as in a pair of the best mittens ever and I must wear them all the time. But this year Jon's sister gave me The Mittens. I'm going to wear them every time I leave the house all season. So maybe karma traded me my Hat for Mittens this year.
I think I know the hat you're talking about. Maybe things like that are a blessing in disguise to remind us of this.
When I was a teenager I had a habit of rearranging my bedroom randomly (Like, dresser in the middle of the floor or facing a well). I liked the feeling of something new and was constantly chasing the feeling. As I get older I have those urges less and less, maybe it has something to do with me liking who I am... So maybe that loss is a sign of a healthy psyche?
Congrats on finding The Mittens. It's funny how some things just click like that and others don't regardless of any objective sense of "better" or "worse"
So it's cool to embrace change and self-transformation, etc., but it's just a fact of being human that we also like sameness and self. Hence losing your bed was perceived by you as a major loss of some seemingly permanent aspect of Self. But it'll be ok! I've had no issues with ned beds but for the past few years I had a beloved winter hat. That hat *was* me. I lost it just last year because that's just what happens to winter gear. And all this season I've been wearing hat after hat, trying to find new The Hat, and none of them feel right. But eventually I'm sure I'll grow to love one of these new hats I've picked out.
Oh- I've never had The Mittens before, as in a pair of the best mittens ever and I must wear them all the time. But this year Jon's sister gave me The Mittens. I'm going to wear them every time I leave the house all season. So maybe karma traded me my Hat for Mittens this year.
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When I was a teenager I had a habit of rearranging my bedroom randomly (Like, dresser in the middle of the floor or facing a well). I liked the feeling of something new and was constantly chasing the feeling. As I get older I have those urges less and less, maybe it has something to do with me liking who I am... So maybe that loss is a sign of a healthy psyche?
Congrats on finding The Mittens. It's funny how some things just click like that and others don't regardless of any objective sense of "better" or "worse"
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