A CHANGE WILL COME

Life is ever-changing for us, in us, and around us. It can feel like a form of insanity when we look at the particulars and the pace of it all. One moment we can feel in charge. The next moment, a change happened and threw everything off course into a new and different direction, and not necessarily a desirable direction. 

These change "factors" of life happen all day, everyday, and they introduce you to the unexpected and the unanticipated irregularities of our days and lives. Most of us hate it, because so much of it seems to be out of our control. Work stuff. Business stuff. Family stuff. Stuff stuff. "Stuff" happens constantly and we find ourselves at the mercy of its movement.

Honestly, it can be a hard pill to swallow. We want to be "masters of our destinies" and the "captains of our ships," but a swift wind blows or some craziness jumps onto our path, and there we are having to do things another way, at least until we get our bearings and we're feeling less tossed to and fro from the "disturbance".

It would be great if changes that happen could be described in a nicer way, but it is what it is, Folks. The strategy and secret that I have personally learned is to remain as flexible as possible with whatever is going on. I've learned that plans can change based on any number of reasons. I've learned that things won't always go as good or great as you thought they would. I've learned that things can change and go another way on a dime. I have also learned that you can get devastating blows seemingly out of nowhere. You can have your nice, neat life flipped, turned upside-down in a moment. I've learned that not everything is as nailed down and permanent as it looked. 

Yes, I've learned all that, and so much more. And, if I had not learned to understand those things and realize that in most all cases I needed to keep my head on as straight as I possibly could, AND discern the flow of the changes in the circumstances, AND go with that flow it if I needed to, I would be going through the rest of my life at minimum very confused, and at maximum, I'd be pretty crazy, with more emphasis on crazy, not pretty.

What are the options when life seems to be taking over? First thing to remember is to try to keep yourself under control. Life REQUIRES navigation, and a lot of stuff can and will go the way we want it to go if we work with it. Upsets, disturbances and distractions are normal stuff, and we can CHOOSE to get through many things if we just use our heads, and do what we think is the right thing to do, the things that will hopefully give us right and good results.

Secondly, know that you can navigate through almost anything and everything. Master the tools of being aware and prepped for mishaps, misunderstanding and misfortune. It's not a fun way of thinking about things by any means, and it shouldn't have you in a place in your head where you fear waking up in the morning. That would also make you crazy.

Change is gonna come in some of the most interesting and unusual ways. It never means life is against you, be careful to not think that way. There is way more good, and way more good change that can come into our lives on any given day, too. Let that sink in, deeply.

S.R.F.