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Okay let's get started. Our universal journey.

A cat with an incurable kind of cancer.

A job that is always tenuous.

Human relationships that are fragile, unpredictable, and sometimes tumultuous.

My own body, seemingly healthy, but still subject to disease, fatigue, and aging.

Life is unpredictable.

However much we think we have a handle on it,

the truth is we never really know what's to come.

Everything can change in an instant.

This is a tough truth to accept, for though we know intellectually that all things in life

are impermanent, we often don't feel it instinctively.

We persist in our attempts to control life.

We imagine that we can predict and manipulate future events.

We imagine that we control, or at least have a strong influence on external events.

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