Change is easy to praise in the abstract and much harder when it takes something we wanted to keep. Marcus Aurelius places loss inside nature’s larger movement, but that does not require us to enjoy it. The useful part may be recognizing that permanence was never the bargain. Everything we value exists in time. Accepting that can make us less casual about what is here now and a little less surprised when life changes shape. What are you learning to hold without assuming it will stay the same?