Things change. No matter how much we want relationships, people, jobs, life, everything, to stay the same, they change. Relationships unravel or grown stronger, jobs end, life moves on.
We move on. We get older, wiser, weary, smarter, slower, sadder, more skilled, more prejudiced, more learned, more set in our ways, more able to appreciate joy. Nothing stays the same except the mountains, and even they weather eventually into dust.
Change is inevitable. We cannot escape it. We cannot stop it. Why do we keep trying? Why do we hold on when we should let go? Why do we let the past rule our future? Why can we not learn to embrace what is going to happen anyway?
Maybe it's because change always carries uncertainty. Too much newness, and we back away. We are jungle creatures, drawn by the light, peering out of the darkness, but wanting the comfort of the shadows.
Many times, change hurts. We lose things we love. We lose people we love. We lose. Change is fire. Can be helpful. Can also burn you to the bone. It's no wonder we are careful.
So we plan. We attempt to control change. Budgets, forecasts, predictions, trends, all the language of our modern witches of Endor as they gaze into their computers and attempt to pierce the veil of the future.
Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. It can go either way. The only thing we know for certain is things will change. And we must adapt to that change or perish. Those are the choices.
There will be losses. There will be gains. The trick -- the really cool thing -- is if you can keep what is good and precious when letting go of the other things. How NOT to throw the baby out with the dishwater, there's the rub. How do we keep the best of the past while reaching toward the promises of tomorrow?
Danged if I know. Do you?
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2 comments:
I loved that play.
Yet, I still couldn't tell you the answer. As much as I try to hold true to the lessons I learn, a little of the pain that brought me to them, lingers.
I think making changes -- fixing ourselves, re-inventing ourselves -- has to be one of the hardest things in our lives. Sometimes it's not possible, but I do believe even the attempt is good for us.
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