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Change — It Is a Comin’
Befriending change is easier than avoiding it
Change does not agree with the basic human condition. The truth is, most of us don’t like it; some of us hate it and will go to great lengths avoid it. We hide, we run, we try to outwait it. The paradox is that while we resist change, it is as relentless as the tides. We cannot outgrow it, go around it, or beat it into submission. We must simply face it, accept that change is the one thing that never changes in life, and learn to love it like a best friend.
Life is constructed on the principle of change, but some change happens “to” us, and some change we choose. Moment to moment we change, old cells die, new ones live on, nature moves through seasons, the planet adapts to the rhythms of weather, plants, animals, even us. The world moves, one day by foot, then by motor… cars, planes, spaceship. We communicate in words, but by different mediums over time. My grandmother would have had a hard time with tweets. Maybe one day there will be a new language of words formed in the heart, and all people will speak it throughout the land.
People move on, relationships change, we love, we lose, we grieve, and we live again. We know the joy of a puppy or a kitty that becomes a dog or a cat and a best friend, maybe our only home-mate, and we know when we agree to adopt them that we will…
