Philosophy of loss. What we have - we do not store, having lost - weep

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Proverbs are the true expression of what happens to people or the world around them. The people very accurately notice both human weaknesses and strengths, and the phenomena of nature. In a short phrase, there is a deep meaning that can be conveyed by many different words. The proverb “We don’t keep what we have, weep when we lose it” from that category of folk wisdom, when one short phrase replaces long explanations.

Russian Proverbs

The rich legacy left by the Russian people, writing proverbs and sayings since ancient times, concerns many aspects of life.

These centuries-old observations of people's actions and their consequences underlie many Russian proverbs. “Friends are known in trouble,” they say among the people, implying that only trials can show whether true friendship is true or not. And so it is in all spheres of life.

Proverbs about losing something are also numerous in Russianfolklore, for example: “What we have, we don’t store; if we lose, we cry.”

What we have - we do not store

The first part of the statement is about people's habit of not paying attention to what they have right here and now, and not appreciating it. The human mind can both quickly adapt to any conditions and get used to what surrounds it.

When a feeling enters a person's life, such as friendship, love or sympathy, then it is realized as important only for a while. Soon the consciousness of a person perceives a friend, lover or beloved as something that will always be there. You can quarrel with them, insist on your own, even part and converge, and assume that it will be like this forever. In this case, it is very useful to remember the saying: “What we have, we don’t store; if we lose, we cry.”

Love and friendship just become part of a person's daily life, and perception begins to dull, becoming a habit. Separation helps to restore the need to consciously see a loved one or friend and perceive the importance of his presence in life. When loved ones or friends part, a spiritual emptiness appears, which can only be filled by their return. It is at such moments that the importance of the presence of such people in life is realized.

Lost - crying

It's harder when a loved one or friend dies or leaves forever. They will never become a part of human life. Such realization does evoke a sense of irretrievable loss, especially ifit is associated with death. It is at such moments that the expression "Having - we do not store, having lost - we cry" takes on meaning.

What has become a familiar part of life is gone, there is no return, and the depth of the loss is realized only with the loss. The writer Lewis Stevenson said very wisely: “That is not lost, which is not regretted.” It is when a feeling of emptiness and pity for the lost is created that weep for it.

And if it is easy to cope with the loss of things and work, having received new ones, then it is sometimes very difficult to establish a friendship or love relationship again.

Proverbs about loss

Loss of something and regret about it are peculiar to people. This does not become a problem if the person has accepted the loss as a bygone past and has let it go. Often, the attachment in the form of regret prevents the new from entering people's lives, and then they start to have problems.

These are psychological problems. “Don’t be a black grouse, fight the loss,” this is how the people said in a joking way, suggesting a person to adapt to life with loss. This wise saying makes it clear that living in constant memories of something lost is a waste of time.

The same applies to the expression "What we have - we do not store, lost - we cry." Proverbs and sayings on this topic offer time to appreciate what is right now.

Vasily Steklyannikov

Reasoning and thoughts about losses, about how to get everything back, and how to live on - this is the main philosophy,which arises in the mind of a person who has received a lesson from life according to the proverb: “What we have, we do not store, but if we lose, we cry.” Vasily Steklyannikov, a young Russian poet, wrote a rap poem on the subject in 2008.

This verse is about lost love. The experiences of the hero on this occasion cause sadness and sympathy among readers. The young man worries that he is constantly destroying his own happiness, and he has to “close” his heart from love in order “not to torment his already disheveled soul with torment.”

For the hero of the poem, everything ends sadly, he cannot cope with the despair and sadness of the loss, so at dawn he gets into the car and does not fit into the turn at high speed. His destiny is to look at his beloved "from heaven" and regret what he has done. Now her heart is broken and will "rust" along with his heart.

This is a sad story about how a person does not appreciate what is next to him. This young man did not cope with the problem, therefore the proverb “What we have - we do not store, having lost - we cry” fits perfectly into the text of the poem.

The author was very good at capturing the essence of this expression. The conclusion that each reader must come to independently is the need to appreciate what is given to him. Do not take life and the whole world for granted. Human life is too short not to pay attention to what surrounds us.

Work, life, problems - all this deprives people of the awareness of being. Unfortunately, it comes only after the loss of what, it turns out, wasreally expensive.

With his poem, the young poet addresses the soul of the reader rather than his mind.

Reading about the sad fate of a young guy, each reader remembers those losses that are important to him. Everyone experiences loss in their own way, but the main thing at the same time is to learn a lesson for life: appreciate and love what you have right now. Not in the past, not “maybe sometime in the future”, but here and now.