I have to stop using 2 spaces after a period. OMG! I can't stop. What is the big deal about not using two spaces after a period? I just read that I should come into the 21st century and stop doing that. Okay. There. Twice. I did it. I used one space. It doesn't look that bad. Change. I can do it. After all, I am one of the biggest proponents of change that ever lived. Change negates stagnation. If we refuse to move forward with the times, and what the times ask of us, we stagnate – like a pond with no outlet. No fresh water to flush and replenish that which no longer applies.
I have to sometimes remind myself of that which no longer applies. Snakes. Snakes have it down. So do hermit crabs. Snakes and hermit crabs clearly understand the need to shed. They know that if they hold on to what is, it will kill them. They know they need to shed the skin and the shell and move on. How can mere animals know and do, without a second thought, what we humans resist and kick and scream at when the same is asked of us?
There comes a time when we must be brave. We must face it. Change is inevitable and we cannot stop it. We are not so adverse to change when it is of our own choosing. It's when change is imposed on us from sources we cannot control, such as a new program or practice being introduced at work or the sudden loss of our job itself or maybe the failure of a project we put our heart and soul into. I have found that it is these uninitiated changes – the ones that blindside us – are the ones that really keep us from stagnating and cause true growth. These kinds of changes turn our world upside down and place us in new landscapes we could never have envisioned ourselves traveling. Scary? Yes, but if we view these changes as necessary, and perhaps even as an exciting new adventure, change beyond our control becomes easier to handle.
And so, as another day goes by, I will accept the changes that come my way today and look forward to the new places they'll land me because it is change that reveals all the wonders life has to offer, and… I have written.
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