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Parallel Lives

Posted on December 9, 2006March 10, 2022 by romanagiulia

Sometimes life has a way to teach you lessons, so much so that it repeats the pattern until you get it right. For those of us who hang on to things, it makes it so that we cannot. For those of us who feel security in possessing things, it has a way of having those things taken away, teaching us the important lesson of impermanence.

More and more I am convinced that nothing, absolutely nothing stays the same. We live in ever-changing times and change becomes all the more difficult if we try to hold on. I moved almost over a month ago and am sitting in my apartment for the very first time tonight. There were energies completely out of my control that didn’t allow me to move in properly.

I had a laptop whose hard drive decided to die, and having once again foolishly forgotten to backup, lost all my data. Why oh why did I not backup?!?

This next one might be a little cryptic: the people I work for, hired an office manager who happened to not really understand her position. She decided to spend a rather large sum of money (over the course of several months) from the organization as well as didn’t pay bills for several months; putting the organization in a relatively nasty position. It appears that she didn’t commit any other acts of impropriety, but what I’m trying to say here is that just when you thought you might be a little more secure in your work, the rug gets pulled from under you.

A very dear person to me is also learning this valuable lesson and we both commented that it seems we’re leading parallel lives. Is it just the two of us, or is this happening to others?

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