I understand exactly why it can feel that way when you’re looking at it through the lens of time....

What you’re describing is real... ...everything changes, everything ends, everything moves.

Love doesn’t escape that.

Neither do people.

That part isn’t pessimism...it’s awareness.

But calling it all “loss” quietly assumes something important:

That the value of a thing is measured by how long you get to keep it.

The river doesn’t mourn the water it carried yesterday.

The fire doesn’t grieve the wood it already transformed.

Nature isn’t losing...it’s participating.

And humans? We’re the only ones who experience something twice:
once while it’s happening… and again when we remember it.

That second experience, memory, meaning, imprint....that’s not loss.

If you love someone and one day they’re gone, yes, there’s grief.

That’s real.

But it doesn’t erase what was built, felt, or changed inside you.

You’re not returned to zero.

You’re altered.... Expanded..... Marked.

Loss suggests subtraction.

Life is closer to transformation.

Even in your own words....you described earth taking in a body and turning it into new life.

That’s not loss.

That’s conversion.

The form disappears, but the essence continues in another language.

Humans rush and cling because we’re conscious of endings. That awareness creates urgency...but it also creates depth.

A sunset matters because it won’t stay.

A person matters because they’re not permanent.

So no...I don’t think everything is a loss.

I think everything is temporary, and we often mistake “temporary” for “meaningless” or “lost.”

But temporary things can be the most meaningful things there are.

To me.

Like Nelly Furtado sang "Why do all good things come to an end?"

You're still young though. Young, beautiful and talented.
I think you have much of a life ahead of you before we all get old and shrivel up like raisins.

This life is but transient.
But we all will be reunited again at the Tikkun Olam.

I’m just a speck of dust here for a nanosecond, and I’m very grateful.
— Paul Simon

The water flowing down the river with no wishes to hold onto any place in particular, the fire burning, without any wish, other than to continue to burn, earth births, earths absorbs, earths transmutes.

It is their "Dharma". It's the Dharma of river to flow, fire to burn. The question is, do you know YOUR Dharma?

That's why that "living in the moment" stuff in not really BS...it's pretty good advise. Not always easy to apply it because of life's pressure - but important to remember.

This is the thought I go to most. To accept everything is fleeting from deep feelings to tall mountains. Keep letting go.