How frustrating it is when your body holds you back from doing what you want to do. It is especially disheartening to discover the activities you used to do are no longer available to you because of your body’s new limitations. It feels unfair that the homes we have to live in for our entire lives seem to deteriorate constantly after we are born.

The one consolation is that perhaps our failing bodies can remind us of our impermanence on earth. It can perhaps connect us to the generations and generations who have lived before us, and it can help to put our lives in perspective.

As our bodies break, it can remind us that we are not just physical beings, and can reconnect us with the emotional, spiritual, and mental aspect