Nothing Is Forever: One Day It’ll All End, So Why Are You Shocked When It Does?

We need to be comfortable with letting go

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I am a firm believer in personal growth and self-improvement. I know that life will pass you by if you don’t work on yourself. There is nothing wrong with having goals and working towards them, but it becomes unhealthy when they become the only thing you live for.

Nothing is forever. This simple phrase can crush us when we are feeling at our lowest, and it can also be the reason for our greatest joys. When we stop expecting something to last forever, we open ourselves up to all the possibilities that life has to offer. The world would be a much more beautiful place if we learned how to let go and accept what comes next…

In the past few days, I have read a couple of articles about people getting divorced. What has stood out for me is that these people say they never considered the possibility of their marriage ending that way. How could they not?

When I became a single parent, I never considered the possibility of one of my children dying. And when one of my sons …