“When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.”
~Anonymous
I always believed that if I can’t change the way things look… then I just have to change the way I look at things. It’s hard to accept change, especially if it’s for the worse— like giving up something that’s important, or losing someone that you love. Changes are all for the better, if you just learn to look at them that way.As we all get older, we realize that people come and they go, but there are those who choose to stay. Things begin and they end, but there are some that continue to grow. People leave for a lot of reasons — better opportunities, more freedom, less liabilities, or because they choose to be with someone else. In this case, I have to understand that change is inevitable.
I’ve been faced with constant OVERWHELMING changes my whole life. I have learned to take control of some of them, and I’m thankful I have, because doing that got me to where I am right now. But for those times when I didn’t do anything to stop something from happening, I often wonder if things would’ve been different if I did. If things would’ve been better. But I also think that if things are happening the way they are, then they are probably meant to happen that way.
But how do we know? How do we know when it is right to stop things from happening, or when it is right to just let them happen? How do we know when we need to step up and do something, or when things are just better left alone? I am afraid of making mistakes that would cost me the people and things that I love, but I don’t want to sit around watching it all happen and just pass me by.
It’s hard to celebrate for good things if they are happening together with some bad ones too. For instance, getting something you extremely love but having to give it up for someone who needs it better… or achieving something but not having someone to share it with. It’s hard to be happy even when you know you are moving closer to your dreams, when you know someone who’s in it is moving farther apart.
Big changes. Big choices. Life is all about them. There are times when we can allow a situation to change, but there are times when we just don’t have a choice. Or do we?
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