The blunt but brilliant truth is that no one and nothing is that central to your existence. You will survive any kind of loss, material or otherwise. We end up getting used to almost anything! Look at our PTD ( public transport dpt ) So we really do make peace with whatever the Gods put in our way. It all comes down to the singular question of time and with good old time we accept and assimilate whatever loss or grievance and survive sufferance.
So do the ambitious fair better at all of this than the "ordinary man"? Do the great characters of history from Budha to The big B constitute exceptions to this theory? Think about it! The world would not have ended without them. Other people would have probably raised to the occasion to do the necessary! And I mean all this in the most grateful way.....
You lose parents, lovers, siblings, children they certainly are irreplaceable in their unique way but they do not take your breath of life ... THAT is one of the billion grains of truth that I think forms the Indian philosophy/spirituality
If you were looking for something coherent, this was not really for you.
