Hello, welcome to Yet Again, another Friday and to Radiohead Space.

I'm Dora.

So the other day, I was listening to the new Hangup podcast by Headspace Studios, and

it's a show that discusses heartbreak, breakups, and closure.

Each episode, a person who is still hung up on a past relationship, speaks with Shan

Boudram, a sex and relationship expert, and Shan helps them look at the past as a way

to move forward.

As I was listening, I remembered something a friend had shared with me a few years ago.

They said something along the lines of, what if we entered every relationship being

aware that nothing lasts and everything has an ending, rather than thinking of relationships

as a happily ever after.

How would our mindsets about endings change then?

This podcast and that question made me think about how we so often fear endings, but forget

that endings are happening all around.

The days passing, the seasons changing, flowers blooming and wilting, endings are everywhere.

And with endings, arrive new beginnings.

No new day is ever the same.

No seasons are the same, or flowers are the same.

But as soon as we personalize this ending, as soon as it becomes our ending, that's when

it seems like endings are nothing but pain and frustration.

I love this Zen story about endings and impermanence.

So one day, a student went to his meditation teacher and exclaimed, my meditation is horrible

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