Change

The one thing that keeps life moving is change. The world is constantly changing, or else time would just be frozen.  Change can be big, change can be small. Change can be exciting, change can be scary. Some changes we can control, others we can’t. We change and other people change.  Whatever the case the world around us is changing. The big ones are the ones we notice most because they have a big impact on our lives. We have a hard time accepting these things. It’s difficult at times for people to accept a big change or in life because it’s new, it’s different, it’s something they don’t know. When in reality, life’s changes are just another step of our journey, and just a small part of our entire lives. Change is just a refinement to bigger and better things.

Tomorrow will be a new step for me: High school. There are multiple emotions I am feeling right now. High school is very scary because it’s a transition I know will be big. It’s a change I can’t control. Is it a bad change? No. It just means my life is moving forward. I think that this is such a hard step for me because I loved Junior High. I had so much fun in middle school and would repeat those three years in a heartbeat. Funny thing is, looking back at it I was terrified to enter middle school. I was scared of that big adjustment. What seems like a trial in our lives now may become a blessing later. I had such a great expierence in middle school and I was very lucky to have been blessed with the people and teachers who touched my life. High school is a pretty big step for me. Sometimes the big steps seem more like a leap of faith. I don’t feel ready for this change in my life but that is so often the case. Life knows we’re ready so we just have to trust it sometimes.

In order for a person to grow and develop they need to change. Every day we shape who we are by the choices we make and the habits we develop. Learning opens new opportunities in our lives and creates new interests. I’ve already become interested in very new things and involved in different things in my school. The pathways we choose in life often shift. Our outlook on life even changes. Sometimes we don’t realize our transformation. Mentally, emotionally, and physically we never stop changing. Because this change is necessary for us to become the person we want. It's more like becoming us rather than changing us.

Holding on to the past gets us nowhere but neither does worrying about the future. The future can be scary at times because we can't see the curveballs that life will throw at us or the maze we often get stuck in.  Corrie Ten Boom a Dutch women who saved many Jewish lives during the Holocaust said, “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” Don’t spend too much time on the tomorrows of life or you will miss out on all of the fantastic todays. Enjoying right now in life will help you accept changes when they come at you. Even life’s hardest, darkest and saddest days have something to offer. Let the past go and let the future happen. As for today, just make the best of it.

It's really crazy to think that three years of middle school went by that fast and three years of high school will go by even faster. Then I'll be in college, just another step in life. I'll have a blast in high school, college will be a whole new adventure. The future is exciting but it is what you do with your "right now" that makes all the difference in the rest of your life.

When life hands us new experiences, new opportunities, and new relationships, we sometimes don’t want to accept the new, or are afraid. We loved the old ones but who knows, we may like the new memories even more. Change is just the refining moments in life. Love what life hands you. Love the things that make you wake up and groan because they’re the things that will make you appreciate your blessings that much more. Without change our lives would be very much nothing. We’d never become better people. We wouldn’t have the chance to experience moments that build us and make us, us. Wither it be the little things or the big things everything happens for a reason and it’s all part of our life and our story, and a part of us.