Sometimes, when we are so settled in life (on the couch, cushions adjusted, remote and popcorn just within reach) and least expecting it, change happens.
Of all the things that ‘characterize’ life, things that never change irrespective of whether you live in an Igloo or a mansion, is the fact that LIFE changes.
The change could be as sudden as an earthquake-Like you sitting and having your cup of morning coffee and receiving a phone call that blatantly changes things in your life, drastically or not, is not the question.
OR, it could be gradual. time-taking… like a stream of water that falls from a height and corrodes all rock it passes over . You don’t see the rock break down at one go, but after a period of time, the rock is not the same anymore, it has now changed, broken down into tiny fragments.
Sometimes apparent, like in the first case, and at other times, underlying, but change is omnipresent. It’s always there.
But why I am thinking so much about change and transition, I asked myself. And pat came the reply – “you’ve changed!”
Yes, I am a hopeless case.
Going back a year; I would have rather been caught dead than writing about CHANGE! But, since this is not last year, and in fact this is class eleven, it only makes a lot of sense that I realize my life has taken a sharp turn and is now much different from what it used to be.
there are many time –wasting activities I indulge in, like I sit by the window and watch the rain fall, sometimes for hours… and just, think.( Not like I can’t think otherwise, but just the fact that rain provides a nice backdrop for the lost-in-thought frame of mind. Come on people, don’t you watch movies!?)- What if time could stay still? What if things never changed? Why do people pretend so much? Why do they live such an inhibited life?
Where is this smell of Latte coming from?
And, then I run inside.
And, activity kicks right back. Physics- derivations, chemistry-reactions, biology-development, math- sin, cos, tan. Homework! Debates, speeches, articles (?).
Amidst all the discussion, the fact that’s highlighted is that the most we can do about change is feel it, think over it, let it sink in and do what humans do best- adapt.
There’s a sunrise following every dawn, life gets back to normal even after the most grueling disasters.
And so, here’s to the change that is, very famously, put, inevitable, and here’s to life!
