Most people’s emotional suffering in this lifetime stems from a fatal obsession. We always assume that true feelings can last forever, that staying together can endure, and that love’s sincerity will never change.
We always think that the passion, certainty, and deep affection of the present are the standard answers for a lifetime.
We always believe that the person who walks with us for a while will stay with us to the end of our days. We struggle desperately for completeness, insist on what cannot change, and fight against separation.
But the more we cling, the more we consume ourselves internally; the more we force it, the more it hurts. Because from the very beginning, we misunderstood the world’s underlying rules.$AAPLB