One of the things you start to question as you get older is if the things you believe in really even exist at all? When you are young you are so sure.  You are so certain of right vs wrong and that you are entitled to a mate.  You have an expectation that is naive really once you are able to look back on it.  

 As you go through life you become less certain.  You slowly start to see that nothing is guaranteed, and that we live in a world of illusion.  The benefit of this realization is that it gives you a key habit, which is to learn to let go…