Hello dear friends, it's Eve here. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday. I popped

out for lunch the other day to run some errands. It was a pretty hot day and there was an ice

cream van outside the store that I was going into. And I could overhear this little girl who had

clearly just finished her ice cream in floods of tears saying, I don't want it to end, it's so unfair.

And her mom very sweetly saying, but darling all good things come to an end. It means that there are

more good things to look forward to. Now, I'm not sure the little girl really understood what her mom

was saying, but it made me think about impermanence. This notion that everything is changing all of the

time and we can go from feeling happy and joyous one moment to side and upset the next. We may wake up

in a really good mood and then something happens in our day that instantly catapults us into a bad mood.

When we experience something that we enjoy, that we get a great amount of pleasure from, this could be

time with certain people or a project we're working on even a vacation. There is this sense of not

wanting it to end. We want to hold onto it tightly and this can actually take us away from

experiencing the joy of it, of being present with it. I think it can be helpful to remember this

quality that everything is changing all of the time. When we learn to let go of thoughts or feelings

about things ending, we can be more present with the experience as it is. We can experience it to

its fullest instead of worrying about it changing. We know intellectually that everything has a

beginning and an end, but what happens is we get caught up in the story lines about it ending.

We start to feel attached to something and it can move from joy and happiness to craving or even

sadness. The same applies to when we're going through something difficult. We can become very

fixated that it may never end, but the truth is we know it well. It may take some time, but again,

if we can let go of the story lines in the mind and be present with the process, we actually see how

situations evolve constantly. Sometimes things do get worse before they get better, but if we hold

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