And that is the magic of change: at the turning points, the contradictions in the fullness of life break like a prism. With the abundance one realizes that one can endure much more than one likes to pretend - including the deep darkness in our latitudes in December.
Heraclitus' statement "Everything flows" refers rather to the phenomenon of life as a process. I can put on the coach in this life and let it pass me by. Life happens anyway, it is constantly becoming.
Panta rhei - at the time of Heraklit there was no sparkling water, right ?!
The IKEA moment doesn't happen right away. The first steps have been taken, the first sense of achievement appears and the piece of furniture takes shape. I don't expect it anymore, but then there comes a tricky moment: it hangs, is uptight, something is too big or too small. The screw cannot be found. I turn, I push or pull, I loosen and fix it again. Most of the time I have to twist myself unnaturally, screw into an unlit corner.
This list of core skills, analogous to the principles of Emotional Intelligence according to Daniel Goleman, can already be internalized as an adolescent - this could save us a lot of friction and loss of energy - at work and in life.
