Musing

Air is the most precious thing to life. We can live without food, and to some extent without water for an extended period of time. . adjust our bodies, our activities, to manage the lack of either, but almost nothing can be compensated for the lack of air. Breath is inevitable, breathing is involuntary. .

We take a breath in, and then carelessly let it leave our bodies; empty, even if for a fraction of a moment, of its vital life force.

Nature intended it to be so, we cannot replenish unless we let go; we cannot gain without losing.

That I have come to believe, is a fact of life that meets us at ever corner.

We do have to give up one thing to gain another; letting go is a part of growing up, growing mature, growing wiser, and finally of growing into something that is beyond what we are.

But, it’s not easy, this letting go business.

We tend to believe that everything we touch is ours to own, everything we create is forever ours.

We hold on to our possessions, making them more important than relationships; we hold on to relationships making them more important than ourselves; we hold on to our egos making them more important than the fact that all of it is but a gift to be treasured for the moment.

Then, like the breath that we take in and let out, it too will dissipate and disappear.