i know grieving the ephemeral is a constant in this life, but can we acknowledge that it feels really unfair? i know it makes sense that living is transience, but that doesn’t mean i can’t be upset about it from time to time
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Grieving about it adds to the beauty of it I’d say. Japanese aesthetics, like wabi-sabi, especially elevated the way I view it.
I feel we are oddly constricted in what we allow ourselves to feel about things; everything has to be ‘good’ or ’nice’...it is very limiting.
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i agree, it certainly does. some days are harder than others is all. u cannot possibly feel emotions we label as ‘good’ all the time!
e.g.: sometimes u feel overwhelming gratitude such that it makes you cry *because* something is ending & it is such a gift to have had it at all
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Verily yes! Also, emotions themselves—without our labeling of them—are almost always purifying when felt thoroughly, I’ve found.
And yes, transience makes one able to appreciate things. Like flowers: we love them all the more because they bloom such a short time. :-)