Change, and Why to Embrace it
This fall has been the most beautiful one I can remember in a long time. The weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS - highs in the 70’s and sunny, with a myriad of colors on the trees that are gradually being shed and distributed around the neighborhood.
Fall is also my favorite season. Long have I not liked living in a northerly climate, but one of the things that I’ve come to appreciate is the change that comes about with the different seasons. Fall is a transitional season - it’s the transition from summer to winter. The hot temperatures from the summer have cooled down and everything starts changing, yet again.
Change has long been something I’ve embraced. It’s been something innate. Or at least something that I’ve believed to be innate. Upon further analysis, however, it seems that change need not be innate. Change has been the catalyst for improvement. But upon attainment of the best, what comes thereafter? More change? If, for example, I’ve found a posteriori the optimal amount of sleep, should it too be subject to constant change, based on the postulate that change is good?
But change can also be bad. Change makes things different, either in a good or bad way.
But here’s the thing: without change comes stagnation. Stagnancy can only be a good thing when perfection has been achieved. Perfection should always be the goal of change, in whatever form that change comes.
Fall, in all its beauty, is only a stop along the seasons. After fall comes winter, after which comes spring, which is followed by summer, and then again by fall. Fall, by its nature, is constantly changing. The most beautiful of all seasons does not remain in season for more than a few months at a time. Furthermore, the preceding season of summer is necessary for the beauty of fall to transpire, which in turn is necessary for the unleashing of winter’s beauty.
To find the beauty in whatever season, in whatever stop along the changing path of life: this is the aspect of change to embrace. To find AND create beauty - in both a passive and an active way - must be the ideal combination.
Change what is bad, hold onto what is good, and find the beauty in whatever circumstances you are in that are unchangeable.