April 23, 2007 at 8:33 am
Always Changing
Please excuse me if I’m a little pensive today. Somehow the day I left my mum came into my mind…
The day I’m leaving, and I’m feeling kind of sad…
You probably don’t know me, but you might be lucky enough to have your mum with you all this while. She’s been the heart and soul to me.
Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe.
A terrific neighbor moves away.
Someone in the family graduates. A child finds new love and loyalties through marriage. The family’s principle bread-winner is laid off.
Our ability to cope with change and disruption determines, to a great degree, our peace, happiness and contentment in life.
But how do we do that? Philosophers have considered the question for centuries, and their responses have been varied.
According to the author of the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, comfort can be found in remembering that “to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Kahlil Gibran urged his listeners to “let today embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing.”
I think life is a series of events both good and bad. No matter how deft your organizational skills, there will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no control.
The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustments should the need arise as it almost always does.
That doesn’t mean you don’t keep trying to make all your dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren’t exactly in your plan, you work around them and then you move on.
Of course, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take than others. A rained-out picnic, for example, is easier to cope with than the sudden death of a loved one. But the principle is the same.
“Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful,” said philosopher Thomas Carlyle. “And if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.”
I’m missing my mum. But rather than dwell on the sadness of our parting, Ill focus on my hopes for a brighter future. Until our plans change again.
It is true that we have to face challenges for us to grow and it is how we deal with them that will bring us a step forward
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