The Pain & Beauty of Life Changes
By Leo Babauta
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The reason for our suffering is our resistance to the changes in life.
And life is all changes.
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A loved one dies. One of the ultimate changes is death, of course, but what has changed? Well, the person is obviously no longer in our life (at least, not in the same way), but just as painfully, we are not the same person when a loved one dies. We have to change who we are — we’re now a widower instead of a husband, a father without his daughter, or a friend who is left alone (for example). We want life to be the way it was, but it isn’t, so we grief, we rage.
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Be like Dylan Thomas, and rage at the “dying of the light”.
Why do I always think of Rodney Dangerfield recitation of this poem?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090685/quotes
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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To which is the movie, there’s a line: “I mad as hell! And, I don’t take no crap from anybody.”
That’s how I feel.
Raging at the dying of the light!!!
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