Impermanence

The Buddha said that impermanence is the root cause of suffering.

As humans, we’re always grasping and clinging wanting things to stay the same.  

But absolutely nothing in life is ever permanent. Everything is always constantly in flux, always changing.

I had an experience with this over the weekend.  I’m currently training for a half trail marathon in a couple weeks.  

I love trail running, it’s something that brings me so much joy and really fills me up.  Not to mention the amazing sense of accomplishment after crushing miles on the trail  at elevation.  

I ran this half marathon in 2018 and in my mind I thought I’d be able to get a similar time.  Well as I’ve been training, I’m a heck of a lot slower than I was then.

A broken ankle, two surgeries and not to mention four years of getting older - why would I expect to run at the same pace?!? 

But somehow we don’t accept that things change and we get frustrated that they can’t always be as they’ve been. 

When we know things will never be exactly the same as they are right now, every moment is another chance to appreciate things.

Let’s embrace the impermanence of this world and use it as a tool to appreciate everything more instead of trying to keep things the same in an ever-changing world.

XO

Adrienne