I Have Lost My Thing

Everything we enjoy is in some sense a gift presented to us by nature or the universe. The stoic philosopher epictetus encourages us to keep the source from which things arise in our own mind when we contemplate losing them. And as time goes on, you can increase your skill with greater and greater gratitude. When something breaks, when you lose something small, you didn't lose it - it was returned. It's none of your concern how it happens. A thief steals it. Who cares? It has been returned. Things are now the same as they were before. You had that car. You've used it in this arena called life. You've gotten use out of it, and