Change V.2

This is a hard one to describe. I'll start with a quote

Things do not change; we change. -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)

It is so true, surroundings may change, events may change but would anything really change if we did not change? It's almost like the question "if a tree falls in the forest and there in nobody around to hear it does it make a sound?" Of course it does, but it does not have any human, emotional, rational connection unless someone is around to hear it. So does change really affect us even if we aren't around to see it.

In a way I want to say yes, because I believe in the butterfly effect, but within our own present timeline. If something happens somewhere it sends out ripples of change that eventually reach us no matter how minimal and if the wake of the pebble that was thrown into the pond that we are classifying as change, doesn't reach us, it reached somebody and that's just another pebble thrown in.

Little examples prove that quote to be correct though. Last night I was at a party or two and right in front of compromising my goals of being abstinent from drugs and alcohol. I easily turned down everything that was offered to me. That's not the usual me. I usually take a shot every time one is handed to me, I usually don't pass on the bowl. But, I was let down, it was all to easy to say no and I had just as much fun. I'm thinking this total sobriety is going to last a lot longer than a year. It felt really good as I watched one guy get sick, many others walking around like zombies. Granted they were having fun, but they were sleepy and groggy and I imagine didn't feel as well as I did this morning. So nothing changed, the alcohol was still there, within my reach and offered to me over and over again. I changed and it was all to easy to say no and still laugh along with the crowd.

So the power to change is within you and it is so easy to bring it out of yourself, you just need resolve and commitment. You need the courage to be yourself and to live life as you want to. I really cannot stress how easy it really is to change, one step at a time, but still you all have the power to change anything you want to.

The other form of change is that you never know what life is going to throw at you, or how you are going to change over the smallest things. Moments may seem insignificant at the time, yet they hold immeasurable power to change the course of your life in its entirety. I embrace change. I look back on all the times that I could have bailed out on a situation but didn’t. What if I had? Who would I be today? My mind contemplated simple thoughts while I started to drift of to sleep last night, content with the days events, and with a pretty good view on the philosophical concept of change.

"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look in the mirror and make a change." -Micheal Jackson