Wednesday Wisdom - Change


If you don't like something, change it;
if you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.


- Mary Engelbreit




All changes, even the most longed for
,
have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us
is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life
before we can enter another.


- Anatole France




When we are no longer able
to change a situation,
we are challenged

to change ourselves.


- Victor Frankl



All change is not growth,
as all movement is not forward.



- Ellen Glasgow



Continuity gives us roots;
change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow
and reach new heights.


- Pauline R. Kezer



For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson




Change can be bittersweet, sometimes even painful, but it can also be invigorating, inspirational, and exhilarating. Almost 18 months ago, I was in much the same position that I find myself in now, despite how much has changed during that time. Much of that change has not been for the better, and I feel that for all I have lost, for all the setbacks, I haven't gained nearly as much (sorry Ralph!) It's been rough.

Something needs to change, something's got to give.

I don't quite know what to change yet, or even if it will just be a small daily ritual or a one-way ticket to the other side of the world. What I do know is that it's probably going to be difficult, it's very likely going to be bittersweet, but I'm going to make sure it's absolutely worthwhile.


[Photography by Koray Birand for Marie Claire US via DS]