Irrevocable loss is ubiquitous; it happens every day to everyone. We get older every day, yesterday is lost forever as our youth wanes. Trees get cut down; people get sick, injured, and die; summer vacation ends, our cars get old and rusty, friends move away, sports contests are lost, we get passed over for promotion, and the list goes on endlessly. Buddhists teach about the inevitable impermanence of valuable things as a way to prepare us to cope better with the inevitable losses in our lives.