It is natural to find security in people and things around us. It's also natural to let these define us, whether it's right or wrong is another thing altogether.
But such a security, that is rooted in the existence of others in our lives can naturally make us insecure: the fear of losing these people or things can make us want to be rooted and dedicated to them even more.
When security itself makes you insecure, what does one do? The philosophical answer is that the loss of things that make you secure makes you even more secure in the long term, but the real answer is that they create disastrous results: Some take to drugs, alcohol or self-demeaning behavior. Others feel depressed, and yet some others keep going on.
It is very important to know that anything that makes us secure has the power to make us even more insecure once we lose them, and to know that nothing by itself defines us as a whole. It is a combination of how we feel about every aspect of our life that can define us and make us secure.
The loss of a loved one, for example. Even before having loved, we must have been aware that losing them is a possibility. Same goes for business. Even before making money we know that we can lose it.
It is the knowledge that we must be secure in knowing that we can find again what we have once found (whether it be love or money or people or things), that makes us want to go on and not lose hope.
It is inevitable that you will get over and over again what you once got, only if you have the same determination that you once had.
- TRB
PS. To my readers in Finland: "Hei, Tervetuloa!" & to those in Germany: "Hallo, Willkommen!"
But such a security, that is rooted in the existence of others in our lives can naturally make us insecure: the fear of losing these people or things can make us want to be rooted and dedicated to them even more.
When security itself makes you insecure, what does one do? The philosophical answer is that the loss of things that make you secure makes you even more secure in the long term, but the real answer is that they create disastrous results: Some take to drugs, alcohol or self-demeaning behavior. Others feel depressed, and yet some others keep going on.
It is very important to know that anything that makes us secure has the power to make us even more insecure once we lose them, and to know that nothing by itself defines us as a whole. It is a combination of how we feel about every aspect of our life that can define us and make us secure.
The loss of a loved one, for example. Even before having loved, we must have been aware that losing them is a possibility. Same goes for business. Even before making money we know that we can lose it.
It is the knowledge that we must be secure in knowing that we can find again what we have once found (whether it be love or money or people or things), that makes us want to go on and not lose hope.
It is inevitable that you will get over and over again what you once got, only if you have the same determination that you once had.
- TRB
PS. To my readers in Finland: "Hei, Tervetuloa!" & to those in Germany: "Hallo, Willkommen!"
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