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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. ~Robert H. Schuller

I was looking at a picture of me from about ten years ago. At the time, I was married and life was treating me pretty well. But I recall that time in my life I was unhappy with how I looked. I saw myself as ugly and fat and I was doing everything I could to lose weight. But now when I see that girl from ten years ago, I am stunned by how pretty and thin she was! In the present day, I can see what I couldn’t back then: I was beautiful and thin in that picture!

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly things can change. Over the course of a year, you could be living in an entirely different state. In just a month you could be working at a different job. In a week, you could welcome someone new into your life. And in mere moments you could lose someone you love. Your life is flipped upside down. Anyone who has ever lost someone they love knows exactly how this feels.

Time is constantly pulling us along, always changing, always putting new opportunities and new people into our lives. But it’s also taking things away that we might hold onto tightly. We all have these pictures of what “the ideal” is, the myths we tell ourselves when we find the perfect job, the perfect mate. Attachments are dangerous, yet they are necessary.