Change is good..

Does anyone ever really want change?

*Stands up* Yes, “‘Please sir, I want some more?’ The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupified astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.

‘What!’ said the master at length, in a faint voice.

‘Please, sir,’ replied Oliver, ‘I want some more.’”

Now who in their right mind would stand up to the fat man of fate and ask for more change? That’s right, but no one ever said I was in my right mind. I realize some people shy away from the very notion: they stay in jobs they hate for fear of the unknown. And these days it’s more understandable than ever before with the storms of “el recession” raining down on our fair country, nevertheless there are always opportunities out there if you actively keep your eyes open. Now maybe it’s my ataractic nature but fear has never been a factor for me in making decisions, rather should I say of jumping in with both feet and pulling those pants up both legs at a time. Really, I don’t know if that makes me special, a bit touched, or if I just used to get bored and or distracted a bit too easily.

However (see how I used that word for transition instead of the big but, gotta keep you on your toes, everyone always expects the big but), I find recently as much as I still like change, I no longer approach it with such reckless abandonment. Call it growing up, call it finally growing a brain, call it the love of a good woman. After I met my wife I realized that I had to, actually, wanted to consider her and thus more closely consider my decisions. Who said you can’t teach a dog new tricks? Honestly, I googled it and I can’t find the original author, but I did find where Mythbusters busted that myth. See, you can always learn something new.

A final addendum to my vociferous rodomontade of real life modifications: I have found in my old age that change is still wonderfully good and even better when first weighed and possibly even considered with a loved one. It also helps that my one is much more careful than me (that’s a nice way of saying she worries like crazy). Yet we balance each other, she is truly the yin to my yang. And back to the matter at hand, I think “Life in General” said it right in their best song ever: “Change is coming and change is good, its done everything that I ever wished it would, but it keeps me awake at night. Yes, it keeps me awake at night.”

Indeed, what more is there to say.

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