Everything dies and changes, even radiators”

by The Crazy Colombian on March 10, 2007

in Life, Reflection

The above is a quote from “The Way of the peace­ful war­rior”, an insight­ful tale of self-discovery by Dan Mill­man. Taken at face value, it makes you reflect on the con­stant change that rep­re­sent our lives. ince every­thing dies and changes, noth­ing that makes us happy (or sad) will be there forever.

The per­son that looks at the world through rose colour glasses will know that noth­ing that makes her sad will last for­ever, and con­tin­u­ously looks for a rea­son to change her state of mind into a hap­pier one.

And the per­son that looks at the world through dark coloured glasses will focus on the fact that noth­ing that may be mak­ing him happy will last for­ever, cre­at­ing a state of anx­i­ety in antic­i­pa­tion of the moment when his cur­rent hap­pi­ness will disappear.

We all alter­nate the colour of our glasses with some fre­quency; the impor­tant ques­tion is how much of a choice do we have in which glasses we wear today?

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Anonymous 04.16.07 at 2:23 am

This reminds me of the quote
“This too shall pass” attrib­uted to var­i­ous peo­ple includ­ing King Solo­man who asked his min­is­ters for some­thing to make him feel bet­ter when sad and sad­der when happy.

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