"Change"...

09/10/2010

I hear people all the time speaking and talking about “change.” We heard a lot about ‘change” during the last Presidential election, though most of us know never to believe anything a candidate promises prior to being elected.  The “change” in them occurs once the wear the mantle of an elected official, and rarely does it resemble the “change” promised.  People speak of change as though it is something great or something so horrible it has to be feared.  Frankly, change is just what it is; it is merely a condition of the moment.  Change is the one constant in the universe, and I do not sweat it and I certainly don’t fear it. 

Nothing is the same from one moment to the next.  Change is movement and everything in the universe is moving all the time – nothing is completely solid.  All one need do is examine an atom to see change, aka movement, is constant.  Enough of my complete understanding of physics, and on to today’s BS. 

I was in a coffee shop on Fairfax Street here in Beautiful Downtown Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, population 711.  I had my coffee and was diligently working with my laptop doing my job ( I had to add that because I was there a 9am and don’t want my co-workers or, God forbid, my boss to know I was goofing off at 9am on a Wednesday drinking coffee and listening to someone else’s conversation).  A group of four sat at a nearby table and were tossing about ideas for a seminar or workshop they are planning about “Change” and how to deal with it.  I didn’t hear a lot of what they were saying, that would be eavesdropping; however I heard enough to get me to thinking about change.

Why do people go to so much trouble to avoid change?  Why are they so opposed to it they would rather fail in what they are doing than deal with the element of change.  This has always puzzled me.  If you live in the “now” change won’t bother you one way or the other.  If your mantra is any given day is “The Best Day Ever,” you embrace change.  May I suggest if you don’t do it now, you learn to live in the “moment,” the “present,” the “now?” Life is really that simple, I believe.  At least it is for me, and believe me when I say, I am nothing special.

And that is all I have to say about that…