Impermanence

Recently, when we shifted to new house , a feeling of little sadness creeped in my mind. We have shifted around 10-11 houses in the last two decades. And I felt a little disturbed this time.What is this kind of life where the feeling of permanency or being settled is so short-lived?

Every time when we shift

we have to adjust to a new surroundings, and people.New logistics and new equations with all around.I put all my heart and soul in setting up the new house. For that matter, all the members of the family put in so much of efforts to make the house a home. Once we get acquainted, we feel settled, we start recognizing the faces around and start building some new bonds and connections and suddenly some changes indicate the time for us to move, it's quite shattering.Excitement is there for new house and new people but the process is so cumbersome and takes us out of comfort zone. So this feeling of sadness had been lingering in my mind for a while.

Today morning ,when I was sitting in my new balcony, I just observed the pigeons and sparrows around. Pigeons for that matter I have seen search and take efforts for building a nest only when the time for laying eggs is around. Sparrows also make their nest with so much of efforts, straw by straw. But when time comes, they leave their places in a fraction of second, never returning back

Whether they must also be going through the pain, or is it a natural process for them? We see birds changing places every now and then. Sometimes they cross hundreds of kilometers to adjust to the climate conditions. Migration is so common amongst birds. Won't they also be feeling sad? Or is that they have adjusted themselves to the fact that nothing is permanent .Don't they appear more evolved ?

We human beings have Manas, Buddhi, Chitta, and Ahamkara and that's why we become sad at times??

Whenever we visit a hotel and stay there, say for 4 days or for 15 days and it's time for us to return back. We do it quite effortlessly. We know we are here for a temporary period of time. We have to leave. So we have adjusted our mindset accordingly. We enjoy the property. We feel at home there. But once we check out, we disconnect. We may remember the rooms. We may remember the experiences, but we'll not miss it like the place we miss called home.

Same is not the case with home.A house becomes a home because it holds repeated moments—conversations, routines, shared struggles, small joys. Over time, those experiences layer into something that feels almost alive. When you think about going back after a long day, it’s not the walls pulling you—it’s the expectation of connection, even if it’s just quiet presence.

At a deeper level our a mindset shapes attachment. In hotel, you may be comfortable and even be happy but there is an unspoken boundary that this is temporary. So you don't invest emotionally in same way and dont root yourself in it.

If we extend that idea, it leads to an interesting question: what if we could carry that same awareness into everything? To fully experience people and places, but also recognize their impermanence. Not to detach in a cold way, but to relate without clinging.

I read somewhere that humans shed roughly 30000 to 40000 dead skin cells per minute. When our body is not constant how can our experiences be.

To live a free life and understand the creation of Lord we need to step out to new places, meet new people and gather new memories.

That’s easier said than done, though. With people especially, emotional bonds aren’t something you can just switch on and off like checking out of a hotel—and maybe that’s the point.It needs tuning the mindset. Enjoy deeply what and who we have recognizing that it’s not permanent.Avoiding over-identifying with the physical or external is also crucial. That’s a powerful way to live, but also a demanding one. Most people swing between attachment and detachment rather than holding both at once.

I feel this reflection and this understanding can help to accept and move on in life much more effortlessly and smoothly for sure.Important is to contemplate and act.