Change is good. Well, its inevitable, anyway. So, as my sister says, find a way to "get ok with it".
A few years ago when I was living in Bucktown I would pass this building near the train station. Every week or so someone would change the art, just a graffiti style poster series pasted to the wall. The messages were frequently simple but touching and always evocative. I love how this one conveys that sentiment between hope and mourning. Its also a very pertinent image for change.
It seems no good change comes without struggle, like a difficult birth, and at the end you're left wondering if the positive feelings you have are from reaching a higher ground or just relief and exhaustion. I guess the trouble is that you never know what you are dealing with until its long over and you can look back on it with perspective.
I'm thankful right now for all the positive things in my life the forward motion and I'm using that energy for strength to face all the question marks in my head.
Here are some thoughts on change:
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." - Carl Jung
"Imagine a scenario in which you could live your life with equanimity if the situation in question never changed and then meditate on how you may help evolve it into something new." - Paraphrased from a newspaper horoscope
Possibly one of the most touching songs ever sung: "A Change is Gonna Come" - Sam Cooke
Goodnight :)
i love this, midori :)
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