I have been looking through all of my blog posts, both public and private, and I found this poem in a private post from August 2008:
Tell Me, What Have I Lost?
I lived for thousands and thousands of years as a mineral, and then I died and became a plant.
And I lived for thousands and thousands of years as a plant, and then I died and became an animal.
And I lived for thousands and thousands of years as an animal, and then I died and became a human being.
Tell me, what have I ever lost by dying?
-Translated from Persian, written by Rumi in the 13th century
Tell Me, What Have I Lost?
I lived for thousands and thousands of years as a mineral, and then I died and became a plant.
And I lived for thousands and thousands of years as a plant, and then I died and became an animal.
And I lived for thousands and thousands of years as an animal, and then I died and became a human being.
Tell me, what have I ever lost by dying?
-Translated from Persian, written by Rumi in the 13th century
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