Entries tagged as ‘change’
When I was in elementary and middle school I had 3 best friends. Laura, Karlie, and Alison.
We were tight. Everyday after school we hung out and had so much fun. We fought constantly and there was always some sort of civil war going on between two of us, but we always seemed to work it out.
Flash to 10 years later.
Laura - I just got a Facebook invite from her announcing:
“Laura’s 2008 Cross Continental Summer Road Trip. Because why should I limit myself to only hooking up with people in Seattle?”
So that’s pretty dam funny. She seems to spend A LOT of her time traveling and thinking up crazy cool things to do.
Karlie - She graduated from WSU and now works at a hospital. Pretty standard, but she is dating a 36 year old (!!). He’s great but its just interesting.
Alison - She has a son that’s like two or three years old and lives at home in the house we used to have slumber parties at.
Me - Working working working. BUT finally doing something fun with my life in 4 months.
Its crazy to think how people start in life and how differently they end up. I always wonder if we ever got together again if we would have anything in common anymore. If we would be able to get back to that pure innocent friendship we used to have and just laugh with each other again. Or does the fact that we knew each other before we were who we are make it impossible to ever relate to each other as we once did?
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Why does change have to be so hard?
Why is it is so hard to look ahead and be excited for the future not sad about the past? Sometimes you look up and all of a sudden things are different and you never even noticed that is was happening. In my opinion, most change is good, its the bad ones that really get your attention. That sounds like a totally obvious statement but is it really? How often do we sit down and take stock of all the positive changes (and positive change is different from positive things happening to you, those are incidents, most of the time change occurs slowly) that happen in our life over a given point in time? For myself its not often that I actually think about it, that I really take stock of it all, sit back and bask in the acceptance of really great change. However as soon as something “bad” (i.e. different) happens I lose sleep over it, I talk endlessly about it and I let myself slip into a negative state of mind. But really when I think about it, just as good change, sometimes just happens, bad change does to so what is really the point in fighting it?
The next correct thing to say right now is that I should try and stay positive about it and go with the flow and make good with what happens, because its my attitude that will make this easy or hard in the long run. But thats just not me and I will continue to over think it. All I can do is keep these realizations in my mind and maybe that will curb the negative side of me that flares up when “bad” changes begin.
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