The Law of Conservation

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. This is a basic scientific concept that we learn in Grade 9 Science class. The Law of Conservation. Everything exists in one form or another, nothing is lost forever.

Sometimes things change so drastically that we can no longer see them, and all we can do is mourn the loss. Like water that turns to vapour, and all we are left with is our unquenched thirst.

On the other hand, sometimes things that matter to us change and come back to us in a form that looks nothing like it was, but we can still recognize them. They look different and are different, but they don't cease to matter.

I am fortunate to have lost something that once really mattered to me, and even more fortunate to be able to see and appreciate its new form, without mourning what it was, but instead honouring what it was.

It was good, and remains good. It mattered and still matters, just not in the same way.

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.

I am grateful for this law...but not as grateful as I am for the new "matter" in my life...I am truly lucky.