Change

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Change.

Think about that word for a brief minute. Really let it sink in. Let it slosh around inside you and coat your insides. Feel the many connotations of the meaning of the word. It is like milk of magnesia of life.

Change.

 Dictionaries define change in many ways. It can be a noun or a verb or an idiom. A cashier can hand it to you in smaller bills or coins then you gave them, along with your purchase. “The change changed hands.”

It seems to me that change is also the entirety of our being. I am rapidly and constantly in some state of change. The world that I look out at is in continual flux. Some changes I seem to battle with, some I don’t notice too much, some display themselves with shockingly regularity. Personal change seems like the weather to me. One day it is raining, the next snowing, and the next the sun shines down upon me. It could be car troubles, work troubles or troubles with people in your life that are breaking up the harmonic progression of your traveling path. It could not be problems at all...a new friend, a happy place or more focused vision.

The act of encountering the roadblocks, speed bumps and potholes of change, (notice the analogies of the road, don’t know why they all were road related but they are) add a large part to the variety of life’s journey. Or maybe for this paragraph it should be life’s car trip.

But for all the confusion that change can bring I try to think in bullet points about what it truly represents. It may well be a metamorphosis. Simple (or complex if you think about it) as a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, work clothes cast off at the end of the day for sweatpants or an adjustment of your held opinions.

• Growth or decay (we wouldn’t have mushrooms without both working in harmony)
• New experiences to break up the monotony of life
• Opportunities to smile about things (or is not a smile a witnessed change to a persons face?
• Look at every moment like a new painting of the future.
• (Add your own additional bullet points here)

Change takes composure and patience to have the most impact with us. Both of which, I continually need more of. Change is not my ruler but I realize that it is the rule of this life.