We are taught to be winners. We are told that we can overcome anything. Set your mind to it, and you can do it.
Losing feels tragic.
The truth is that most of us are losers. We just don’t want to acknowledge it. Life is hard. Life is, as they say, suffering.
Losing is the natural state. Before you were born, you were not-alive. You weren’t alive for all of eternity. For billions, maybe trillions of years. You are alive for only a brief moment in time. Your natural state, is to not be alive.
99% of us live less than extraordinary lives. The remaining 1% is just delusional.
I say, accept your losses. Learn to lose.
We exercise to live long. We are told to eat healthy. They tell us to worry less and sleep more.
We struggle to stay young. Maintain what we have. Fight aging and disease. We are told to apply the latest cream, get on the next fad diet, and eat the newly discovered super food. We’ll get healthier, stronger, younger and smarter…
Lies and more lies. We eat it up because we want to believe that we can live forever… remain beautiful, healthy and young.
Notice the elderly… They weren’t always old. They were young too. They were beautiful and healthy once.. Like you…
I’ve never seen an old billionaire look like a teenager. If that was possible, I’m sure they would’ve done the procedure. Even with all the money in the world, age and death cannot be circumvented.
I suggest that you learn to lose.
They say life is about learning. But even knowledge will desert you. Health, for sure. Beauty abandoned me years ago… My sanity may be next..
I respect the elderly who have a good attitude. It’s easy to be bitter and angry at life.
They say you get happier when you are older; you learn to accept life and stop trying so hard. You learn to let go, appreciate what you have, and stop lamenting over dreams long gone.
Memories can be cruel. They remind us of our painful past. Perhaps there is something you need to work out…
If we are fortunate enough to be old, it is a bitter pill.
Being old equalizes us all to — old. Not only a state of wrinkles and physical atrophy, but likely one of chronic pain, physical and mental challenges.
We should all be more grateful, respectful and kind to the elderly. They are survivors with scars.
The fitness instructor, the muscular athlete and the beauty queen, will soon be equalized to the body type… old. There is no escape.
Regardless of your diet, your body will betray you. Regardless of your profound knowledge of the universe… you will fall to dementia.
One third of our life we spend sleeping. One third laboring. 10% in physical and personal maintenance. What’s remaining, we waste away worrying about things we can not control. Doing things that keep us busy, living to live and hoping on a wish… maybe a miracle.
This too will end. Whether we go smiling, crying or angry… life will end, and back to our natural state we go.
So I say, learn to lose and embrace what’s coming.
Today is life. The now is real. Experience the journey, and awake with gratitude.
Learn to lose, and you will win.
