What the epistemology of loss in this world of possessions? How
has the child learned to stand up in life?(The ball poem)
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Epistemology of loss is the study to learn the nature of loss. In this world of possession people do every action for the purpose of to get or to possess something. No one performan any action without any selfishness.
So, it is important for the boy to learm that in this world we should have to move further leaving our favourite things behind. We should learn to cope with the problem.
Gain and loss are the two sides of the same coin. Getting, spending and losing things form a natural cycle of life. The boy is inconsolable at the loss of his ball. Actually, it is not the ordinary ball but his long association and attachment with it that makes the loss so unbearable. It is like the good sweet days of childhood that the boy cherishes so much but are lost and gone forever. They will never come back again. So, what is the remedy? He can bear this loss by understanding the epistemology or nature of loss. In this world of material wealth and possessions, it seems that money can buy anything. However, it is a false conception. Money has its own limitations. Its nature is external. It cannot compensate the losses that a person suffers emotionally or internally. No wealth can buy back the ball that has been lost forever. Similarly, no wealth can buy back the lost childhood. The child will have to move ahead and stand up in life. He has to stop weeping over his past losses and start living life as it should be lived.