Change is a powerful device, many people seem to hide from and refuse to acknowledge the inevitability of it, whereas others embrace it, sometimes too much. Change seems to have been one of the most prominent features in my life over this past year, nothing has stayed consistent. As humans we are all too willing and content to stay happy, to stay comfortable. If nothing in our lives ever changed we may assume that we will stay happy, that life will stay positive. Change is what brings about sadness and hardship, change will always be negative. Many people are afraid to embrace change, they're afraid that if they take one step out of line then the status quo will come tumbling down. But what good does it do us, to be scared to make a move? If people never changed then great opportunities would be missed, life would be passed by. You often hear people say that they're content with where they are, with who they are, with what they're doing, but I often wonder if that is even possible. If our ancestors hadn't changed and moved on, what great inventions and discoveries would we have to live without? If Marconi had been content with his small town life in Italy and hadn't travelled to Britain, would we have the radio? If the Bronte sisters had been content with their lives and status of women in society, if they hadn't written under their pseudonyms, would we have had two of the greatest literature masterpieces ever written? You may think that by staying still and refusing to acknowledge change that you're stopping it from happening, but you can't control time. Regardless of whether you accept it or not, the earth continues to rotate and lives continue to shorten. So that got me thinking, are people really truly content in their lives, or are they afraid to move? Because if you change and something unfortunate happens, then you'll forever have a scapegoat to blame things upon. But if you stay still and the same event were to occur, then that just signals that life happened, that everything went on its' due course. Though what I do know is that if you close your eyes and hope for the best, you miss an awful lot. Change can take you halfway across the world to the last place you imagined, or it can bring you right back home. It can bring you to new friends and faces or reaffirm an affinity with old ones. All I know is that you can either embrace change and surf the waves that get thrown at you, eyes wide open even if it stings, or you can tumble beneath them and refuse to acknowledge the phenomena that is indeed occurring all around you.
Until next time fellow humans....
