In the course of our lifetime, we use many different forms or configurations—material ones, like our body or a house, and immaterial ones like jobs, titles, relationships, organizations, etc.
We experience everything and everyone through these forms. So much so that it's easy to convince ourselves that we are these forms.
Yet, like everything else in nature, forms are transient.
When they are no longer needed, they are left behind, and they dissolve like the old skin of a snake or the shell abandoned by a mollusc.
However, it's hard to let go of something when we believe it defines who we are.
It is so easy to fall in love with the form we use. We convince ourselves that we are who we are only thanks to that form.
We wrongly attribute the peace, happiness ad success we experience to the existence of that specific form or configuration. We forget that the form is just a means, a channel through which we realize our potential and who we are.
So, it's hard to let go of a form even when it doesn't serve us anymore.
Yet, we are, individually and collectively, so much more than the configurations that we use.