The Six-letter Word . . .

Change!  This has probably never been a word used to describe one of my stronger skills for navigating through life!  I prefer routine, traditions, predictable, status quo etc.– you get the picture?  I clutch firmly and hate to let go, whether it is something as big as employment, as complicated as relationships, or as simple as going to a hairdresser (although this was actually one of the more difficult changes for me to make!!) 

Perhaps I’ve always figured if circumstances didn’t change, I had control over the situation (control – now there’s a seven-letter word I’ve always loved!)  Kind of silly when you stop to think about it, how can I stop change?  There are all kinds of opportunities waiting, if I only move out the clutter and make space for them.  I guess I’m a slow learner, but I am making progress.  I mean I did switch hairdressers after twelve years!

So how about you?  What is that six-letter word to you; friend or foe?  Or maybe it fluctuates on the continuum  - just like change itself!

Change

Decades tiptoeing

around it,

as if avoidance

could halt

life’s natural progression.

Days, months, years,

wrapped in

tidy packages

tied with

predictable ribbons.

Still,

it finds

an opening,

unwilling to be

boxed in

or

shut out.

Ever present,

never ending,

sometimes gently,

sometimes forcefully,

often unexpectedly,

intruding on order

and carefully laid plans.

Until it is

welcomed

and

embraced.

Lovingly invited

on the journey,

as a familiar friend,

not an

unwanted stranger.

April 12, 2013