Why?

Why does your favorite shirt, pants, jacket or what have you, tear, get a stain on it or become damaged long before its appointed time to wear out? By the same token, why do work shirts, pants, etc. things you could care about the least, seem to last forever? Why does the good car, the one you care for the most, get parking lot dings and scratches while the secondary car, the "beater," suffers nothing? We call it the "buttered side bread falls down and lands on the buttered side" theory. If it fell the other way I wouldn't be writing this—it always seems to fall it that manner, making it completely useless.

So how do we combat this, if we could? Always butter your bread at the table your going to eat at? Don't get attached or favor anyone or anything for fear of what is going to happen to it? Show no emotion? Impossible! And we can't build barriers around everything or everyone we love or cherish. Life isn't that simplistic. Life can be cold and harsh as well as warm and loving; both can even coexist at the same time in the same environment. In our consumable society, today's most desirable car or must have item will be tomorrows used, tossed out castaway. The car gets sold to someone else who will cherish it until it too looses it's appeal and will be sold to its third owner until eventually it's scrapped. My trash may become someone else treasure.

Don't pin all of your expectations, hopes or pride on your possessions for you may become disappointed. Cherish the moment, bask in the pleasure this object of your attention goes you. The moment of your possession is fleeting, so be aware of its fragile nature or you may be disillusioned.

K.