What Is And What Was

We live with the inevitability of change and that can be upsetting.

Even those situations and circumstances that feel familiar have varied from what they were into what they are. Expectations are sometimes met, given time, but there are no certainties or guarantees.

As individuals we have one of two choices…accept change or refuse it. The problem is that refusal is futile.

There is some comfort to be drawn from the understanding that change does not have to be spectacular. More often than not it is closer to imperceptible. Modifaction can be modest. Small steps are far more manageable than dramatic leaps. And there results can be more sustainable.

The simple fact that everything around us is changing each and every day demands the response that we make adjustments. The person we were yesterday should be a different version of the person we are today. We are required to absorb that which is happening to us and use it to change that which is happening through us.

It’s altogether possible to lock our emotional gates, draw our attitudinal blackout curtains and sit in a dark corner of our own creation. But that can be a very lonely place to be.

Not all change is good in its initial stages. The passage of time, however, brings with it the comfort of understanding. It’s in retrospect that we can see things clearer.

The good news is that if we do not like what we see we can always choose to take action to alter the picture.

Change is always possible.