This text will be controversial. Still, I believe we weren’t born for convenience, well-being, and fortune.
All people were born to lose something, to evanescence, to feed our minds, hearts, souls, and expectations with the hope that everything will be OK and someday we and our beloved will become happy. Anxiety is an inseparable part of one’s life. We were born to worry about ourselves and our loved ones. More money won’t solve our existential problems or make doubts vanish. We are afraid of death, and sometimes, we desire it to avoid fatiguing, painful, and disturbing things that can happen to all of us, no matter how much money we have in our bank account. Uncertainty, changes, pain, and death (no, not taxes) are the only things we can be assured of.
How do I know all these things?
It is not only I read wise books, with the Stoic Seneca the Younger and Fyodor Dostoyevsky at the forefront. I know it because when I was nine years old (I was born in 1985), my 13-year-old brother died. Since then, I have been internally assured that we all do not appear in this world for convenience, well-being, and fortune.
It is the middle of Fall, the 19th of November, 2023. I do not want to state I am in a depressive mood.
After all, I was walking with my beloved Dad yesterday and today in a magical and healing forest in Brok. People with depression do not walk as frequently as I do. I simply had such thoughts. Of course, during our life journey, there are moments of joy when we feel happy and content. After all, I also frequently use the phrase “How happy I am.” I wish you, my Dear Friend, as many moments of joy in your life as possible. Still, in today’s post, I want to stress anxiety, uncertainty, pain, transience, and death are the only things we can be assured of.
