Atoms and molecules, cells, gasses, temperatures and moisture levels are changing constantly, whether they form an environment, or are hosted within an environment. Earth is alive. People are coming and going. Plants are dying and growing. Animals are killing and being killed. We can sometimes be loving and learning, other times transitioning, discerning.
C H A N G E
Without the first and the last letter of this word it’s just hang. Which is pretty much what happens when there is no change - we hang out to dry, hang around, hangman. We’re so afraid of change. Sometimes it seems to happen in too many areas of life, too quickly, and our adjustment mechanisms need time to catch up. It can be overwhelming. Sometimes the things around us that we can’t control change so much that we lose a sense of empowerment from within and so we shy away from personal shifts for a bit to try maintain a feeling of balance. Alternatively, we tip the boat right over in response - usually when it is a matter of life and death. But even then, the prospect of death doesn’t always provoke, because if, having only given time to the fear of it rather than considering the actual event that is certain to come, death remains in some imaginary version of life where it is ‘out there’, happening to other people. The same version of life we think feels more comfortable with less change.
Change the baby’s diaper, change house, change cars, change countries, change food, change partners - it’s all always changing, in mundane and magnificent ways. Who then, has so much luxury that they don’t feel the impetus for change? Who can afford the luxury of being attached to a house, a person, even a dream? And why do we crave such fixed versions of our lives?
What if your love of this lifetime walked through the door tomorrow and everything you knew had to change for you to be together? Would you try it out? Something, somewhere had to change for that person to be standing in front of you at that moment. What if the change life is asking of you is the doorway to an adventure you’ve dreamed of but don’t yet realise is the way towards it - do you try it out?
The nature of life is change. Loyalty, dedication and commitment can live alongside change. Any day, any moment, a mind can change, while remaining fully engaged and committed to life, or a partner. The desire to escape something can tempt change; which is sometimes necessary if we feel threatened, but self enquiry serves well to discern whether we are prompting change in an attempt to weave a way around changing something inside of ourselves, or if we are leaving behind a situation or being state for our own safety, survival, well being or health.
Change sometimes requires major decision making and other times it is out of our control. It serves us to remember that nothing is cement, but cement itself.