Dealing with Change
Sometimes it feels as if everything gives a lurch to one side. After a summer spent on various writing projects the Fall has come to greet me with many claims on my time. Three sets of friends’ marriages seem to be splitting up, and the phone has been given a thorough work out. But then as the angst subsides I do a quick check and notice that there are two weddings balancing them out. One was last week, and a lot of fun, the other is tomorrow.
Inevitably this sort of thing shoves a few questions at us: How can we make sense of these sudden bursts of change? Why are they all happening now?
Perhaps we can’t ever make sense in the way we’d like and the demand is simply that we stay focused on the good that can be found in all things. Of the three painful splits two are, I feel, likely to lead in the end to a more authentic life for each person concerned. ‘Authentic’ may not be comfortable and may even be stressful in some fairly obvious ways, and yet ….. remaining inauthentic carries its own heavy price, too.
There’s happiness waiting in these upheavals, somewhere, if we can wait for it to emerge.
