Start with the observation

Even in happiness, the knowledge that it will end can cast a shadow across the moment.

Follow the reasoning

  1. Desire does not prove its object automatically, yet stable natural desires normally correspond to something real.
  2. The wish for permanence is not limited to survival; it includes reunion, remembered goodness and beauty kept from loss.
  3. A world of passing forms awakens this desire repeatedly but cannot satisfy it on its own terms.

A passage to hold beside it

“Whoever listens to an awakened conscience will hear it say: forever, forever.” 1

Read plainly

The desire for forever may be less like a defect in the heart and more like information about what the heart was made to seek.

Try observing this

Name one good thing you would not want merely more of, but would want protected from ending.

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