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A MEDITATION

“ Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 9.35

On mortality

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A reflection

The leaf falls so the tree can live. The job you loved ends and the next chapter opens. Loss feels like subtraction in the moment; from a longer angle, it's just the cycle doing its job. Nature doesn't mourn autumn — it invented it.

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