JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE COST OF ATTAINING LIFE AND GROWING OLDER. FINIS.

To think of and to see ourselves as a duality, as we might speak of 'your body' or 'my body.' Which suggests that there is a separate 'you' and 'me' to whom the 'physical body' we carry around, or which carries us around, 'belongs.' Yes, part of the cost of attaining 'Ergo-sumness' is that we humans acquire and accumulate and form attachments form with things, both organic and inorganic. Things which then becomes a part of us, psychologically and emotionally, if not physically. And herein lies the paradox; the fact that we must lose, be separated from all our perceived 'gains.' Such it is that, as we travel through life, depending on how far we have travelled on our way towards our inevitable demise, our personal extinction. We will have become separated from and lose some of the 'things' we have 'gained' along the way. Until we get to the point of losing, but not becoming separated from ourselves, a...