Painterly coin suspended between two cupped hands above scattered autumn leaves.

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Tori Amos

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker finds loss tricky because people tend to measure their worth by what they own. The suggested reversal is that worth can grow through things one is willing to release. Letting something go may therefore add to a person rather than diminish them.

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