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Everything physical can be taken from you.

A house may be seized, a fortune spent, a collection scattered, a title revoked, and every object once mistaken for permanence reduced to an inventory in someone else’s hands.

Possession is merely custody with confidence.

What cannot be confiscated so easily is knowledge, experience, judgement, memory and the people who have altered you. Knowledge survives the loss of the library. Experience remains after the evidence has disappeared. Love continues long after the room has emptied.

People leave as well. Some walk away. Some are taken by distance, time or death. Yet those who truly mattered do not depart in quite the same fashion. They become part of the language in which you think, the standards by which you judge, and the private architecture of your heart.

The world may take everything you own.

It cannot entirely take what you have learned, what you have lived, or whom you have loved.

Those are the only possessions that eventually cease to be possessions at all.

They become you.