Changes

This morning, the word 'change' is on my mind.  I woke up and things felt different today.  Usually my first thought on the weekends is to wonder what's going on with people I know from the internet; and so I log on and check email, messages, etc.  Lately, while I still pop on and check those things, I'm not as interested in hanging around, chatting with folks who drift on.  That's how I know things with me are changing.  Which made me look up a few quotes about "change"::

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

People are always telling me that change is good.  

But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. 

 ~Meg Ryan

 

There is only one way to happiness, 

and that is to cease worrying things 

which are beyond the power of our will. 

~Epictetus

“When you love someone, it's never over.... 

You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.”  

~Elizabeth Chandler

There are the basic changes in life; you grow up, move out on your own, or school ends and you get your first job.   A new job.  A career change.  Start a family.  Buy a house.  Move across town, or across the country.  Health issues.  Family issues.  Love begins.  Love ends.  Every day, there are all kinds of changes in our lives.  Some of them big ones. Some of them little ones.  Some of them we see coming, some we choose, and some are thrust upon us for reasons we can't figure out at all.  And yet, we're expected to move with the changes.  It's certainly easier to accept changes that we embrace, or want.  But its the other changes, the ones that happen without expecting them, that make it harder to keep moving on.

And yet, somehow we do just that. 

We survive changes, we adapt and adjust.

Sometimes it hurts. 

Sometimes we cry.

Sometimes we're happy with them.

As for me, and the changes I feel coming .... I know I will have good days, not so good days, and better days.  There will be moments where I wish the world would stop, and just as many moments where I wish it would just hurry along into the next phase.  Reminds me of a country song:  "If you're going through hell, keep on moving, if you're scared, don't show it..... You might get out, before the devil even knows you're there."   

When it comes to change, whether its one we choose, or one thrust upon us, don't give up, don't give in, push through to the other side.  It may turn out to be the best change, once you look back on it.