Change

Why must things change? Why can't things just stay the way they used to be? Why can't every little thing go according to my plan? Why can't I just be a self-absorbed fool and be content?

Change is indeed one of the only constants in this world. Change and God. God doesn't change. Change is integral and necessary for life. In order to grow up, there must change in our bodies. In order to learn we must change the way we think. In order to become better we must change ourselves. If we remain content with the world as it is, and fall in love with exactly the way things are, and cannot move on, then we aren't being healthy. People change. Relationships change. Plants and people grow, seasons never cease their flow, and what once gave you happiness may now only give you pain. But you may also find something new to love. You can find something else that can make you happy.

There are several quotes on the matter of change, living life and letting go of the past.

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, then it never was."

"I find I can live with the pain after all. The pain now, is part of the happiness then. That's the deal."

There seems to be a quote for everything, doesn't there?

I can live with change in my life. Sometimes it hurts, but I can only trust that it can be better. That God has a plan, and that part of that plan is my eventual happiness. I just have to keep from becoming cynical in the meantime.