Ch-ch-changes!

I’ve had a lot on my mind lately and I don’t really know how to put it into words, so in true Floating Princess style I’m just going to hurl it out there in all it’s unstructured glory.

It seems like I’m in a moment in time where everything around me is changing, including me.  The obvious changes are that the boy is growing up and graduating and will soon leave home.  Our home will change and our lives have already started to change because of it.  These are good changes because it’s how life is meant to be.  That doesn’t mean I’m not sad for the end of an era, but it’s the beginning of a new era and that’s pretty exciting.

I’m so excited to watch him start his life!  It seems near impossible that this boy who covered himself in baby powder and called himself Casper is going to be let loose in the world, but it’s true so look 0ut.  You have been warned.

Other things in my life are changing too, including me.  I have become at the same time both more patient and less patient.  Things that used to frustrate me endlessly seem to not matter so much; they have, however, been replaced by new irritations.

It makes me sad to watch people go down a path I know is destructive, whether it be to themselves or the people around them.  I know that everything changes, and people are among everything, it’s just hard to watch sometimes.  Sometimes change is motivated by adversity; sometimes prosperity is the catalyst.  The changes brought on by prosperity seem to me to be among the most destructive.  It makes people forget.  I’m just going to leave it at that for now.

For the most part change is good.  It shakes things up and puts a fresh face on them, whether you think the change is positive or negative.  It doesn’t matter, it’s still change.  It’s still new.  It still turns your life in a direction you may not have anticipated but that has the potential to be really great.

How do you feel about change?  Scary or opportunity for growth?