THE PARADOX OF INSECURITY

We spend so much time and energy building boundaries, walls and secure places: maintaining relationships, jobs, collecting possessions… All with the idea that if I can get it all perfectly arranged somehow, that that will bring me real security and safety. Maybe that sense of safety and security can last for a while, but inevitably at some point something happens to disturb it all. Whether it is losing your job, a relationship break-up, illness, or some kind of tragedy. You have to eventually face the reality that nothing is certain. Nothing, or no one, can be relied upon to be here forever.
However, this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t dive into relationships, maintain jobs, or acquire possessions. Why not? Lose yourself completely in whatever you do, or whoever you are with, only knowing that you have nothing to lose really. This is the heartbreaking paradox of life: that because you have nothing to lose, you may as well lose it all.

~ Unmani