9 AUGUST 2021 — ALLOWING FOR CHANGE

ALLOWING for change and LONGING for change are two different things We may LONG for our lives to be different but then when CHANGE confronts us in the face, we fear it and attempt to cling on to the old = to what we know.

LIFE GOES ON, of course, but NOT ALWAYS IN THE SAME WAY. Personally, I have a tendency to feel that I should do what I always do and find myself telling myself that I haven’t done this or that, been to places I usually go as if it is something I SHOULD HAVE DONE. What is more I also have a tendency to feel that I have failed in some way: that I am no longer capable of doing the things I usually do.

And so I need to remind myself that it is NOT because I am no longer capable; it is because things change; and to remember also that the NEW IS IN FRONT OF ME IF I DON’T DRAG THE OLD INTO THE PRESE