Who can live without losing something at one time or another? Everything we have will one day be lost. Who can go through life without getting sick with this or that? It is a constant struggle to remain healthy.

     We feed and clothe our bodies, house and transport them conveniently and comfortably, but alas, they are ungrateful and unreliable, and let us down. To expect too much from life is to invite disappointment.

     While we should take care of what we’ve got, we should also fortify ourselves with knowledge and understanding of the nature of life: how it changes, comes and goes; we cannot possess it, and it is therefore, not really ours at all.