| An item with which you have an emotional | | | | a sudden you have an argument and the |
| attachment breaks, are you upset? When you | | | | friendship appears to be over. You are |
| can't find something you have enjoyed using | | | | understandably upset, but have you considered |
| throughout the years is missing, do you become | | | | why that person was in your life to begin with? |
| distraught? When your child goes off to college do | | | | Sometimes we will have a teacher in our life that |
| you cry for days? People and things are very | | | | shows us many new things and suddenly the |
| important to us, so when they leave, we can get | | | | relationship changes. Instead of clinging to them |
| wrapped up in the emotional part of it all. Drama | | | | and try to communicate with them, stop and ask |
| can fill our world. | | | | yourself what they brought to your life. When the |
| Everything is impermanent. Nothing is meant to | | | | purpose for them being in your life is over, the |
| last forever. I'm not speaking of an appliance, I | | | | ties will be severed or the relationship may simply |
| am talking about things that we get really | | | | change. That doesn't mean you didn't learn |
| attached to. Our family members are a good | | | | exactly what you needed to learn from that |
| example. We love our family and when someone | | | | teacher, but what it might mean is that you were |
| moves or dies we have a tendency to go into a | | | | meant to find a new mentor. |
| depression. This is a common reaction to a sad | | | | How can this be explained? The Universe lines |
| event, but knowing that everyone will leave us at | | | | things up for our lives. When we think of a desire |
| some point in time should help with the emotional | | | | for ourselves, we send the thought out into the |
| trauma that we feel. | | | | Universe and it responds by sending the people or |
| If you have a favorite item that has been passed | | | | things needed to fulfill that request. That favorite |
| down from one generation to the next and one | | | | vase passed down from your grandmother is |
| day it gets broken, how will you react? Everything | | | | perhaps with you because you need to refer to |
| and everyone comes into our lives for a reason. | | | | things your grandmother told you. Once you have |
| People are in your life for a period of time to | | | | grown beyond that, the vase may have little |
| teach you things that you would not have been | | | | value in your life. |
| taught otherwise. Once the goal has been | | | | We are all on this earth to learn. Introducing the |
| reached, that person may leave your life. A good | | | | idea that everything is impermanent will make |
| example of this is a friend that has been by your | | | | your losses easier to emotionally recover from. |
| side, through good times and bad, and then all of | | | | |