Everything Changes

Day 194 / 366

Back when I was a kid, I had a best friend named Osho. We used to think that we would remain best friends all our lives. I lost contact with him when I moved to Kota in class 11th, and now I have not spoken to him or even texted him in years. It’s funny how things that seem so important to us at a given time don’t even matter years later.

The same thing holds true for problems. Lots of problems seem like life or death, but years later we look back and laugh at them. Things or people who you thought you couldn’t live without, will leave your life at some point. And with time, it will all just get normalized and feel ok. This too shall pass, as they say.

I think about this whenever I am dealing with a problem that seems too big to solve. I think about myself 5 years from now. I know that I would look back at this and laugh about how stupid I was to think that it was unsolvable. And that gives me comfort. However shitty it feels right now, it won’t feel like that 5 years from now.