If there is one thing in life that is certain, it's change. Every day, whether it goes unnoticed or hits you smack in the face, something in your life is changing. Your job, family, friendships, even you as a person are subject to change. It's an absolute certainty, so why is it that one of the few things in life that we know is going to happen still scares us? I'd like to think that it's not so much a fear of change, but more of a fear of the unknown. Yes, there are some changes that we make ourselves, the ones that we seek out, the things that we put into motion, but there are so many that we don't even see coming. The ones that blindside us, that shake up our comfortable lives and at times threaten to push us right off the edge of sanity. I think that we like our habits and our daily routines and our comfortable, dare I say at times stagnant lives so when something comes along and makes things different in any way, we don't know how to handle it. Unfortunately, we are so resistant to change that even when something happens that turns us in a completely different direction, we sometimes don't see that we're going down a better road. Only after the dust has settled from either the initial upheaval or the fight that we've put up to stop it from happening, do we really see that it was a good thing. I'm not going to sit here and say that all change is good, it's not, but I do believe that all change has a good reason. It has it's place in our lives, in and of itself might not be good but it could put you on the path to something great. Heartache can teach you a lesson and bring you to a place where the right love is waiting for you. Illness can show you the blessing of life and bring you to an understanding of what truly matters in this world. The loss of anything of importance can teach you to be grateful for what you have and show you the strength that you never you knew had.
Change is scary but without it we would remain the same, never growing, never improving and never becoming the people that we are capable of being.
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." ~ Alan W. Watts
