We all know some things are certain — like the fact that everything ends.
Friendships change, seasons turn, life moves on.
But instead of facing this with clarity, we often deny it.
We try to hold on, to freeze time, to avoid endings. That denial creates pain.
At the same time, we spend so much energy chasing things that are completely uncertain — how people will respond to us, whether something will succeed, what the future holds.
We try to control what isn’t in our hands, and the more we try, the more anxious we feel.
It’s like trying to stop the tide with a broom, or chasing clouds with a net.
But when we start noticing this habit of the mind — the pushing and pulling, the clinging and controlling — something shifts. In that simple awareness, there’s space.
It doesn’t fix everything, but it opens the door to living more lightly, with less struggle.
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