Never to stop changing

To be alive is never to stop changing. How do you feel about change?

For many, fear or trepidation is a perfectly natural response to change. For some, change is something to be embraced, even sought after with purpose. Neither response is right or wrong.

Any and every human life will involve times of profound change and potential transformation. Looking back on your own life so far, what was the most significant or far-reaching time of change for you? How did you feel as you were going through it? How do you feel now that you can look back upon it (presuming that it is now over)? Are you thankful that you went through that time of change?

Being thrown into periods of change and uncertainty can be a horrible and unsettling feeling. Life might feel at times like the darkest of nights on a storm-tossed sea.

Yet at some point in any and every night, the first signs of light will start to appear. The sun will slice through the darkness, bringing light and colour back to the world. No matter how long you might seem to be stuck where there is no light. No matter how dark the night, the sun will eventually rise again. The waves might start to settle as dawn breaks.

There comes a point in any process of change when the hardest part is (touch wood) over. There is a moment of transition, when the pieces start to fall back into place. When chaos and uncertainty give way to the new way of the world.

You are changing every moment of your life, whether you like it or not. Change is really what it’s about, what all of life is about. To be alive is never to stop changing. None of us has any choice but to keep changing. I hope never to stop changing.

Has there ever been a moment in your life when you realised that you had stepped into a new world? That everything had changed (I hope for the better)? Can you remember the exact point of transition, from one stage in your life to the next? I would love to hear from you. Please post a comment below, or @ me on the social medium of your choice: BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads or Instagram.

May you be nothing but kind today, to others and to yourself.

May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.

UPDATE (Monday 20 October 2025): Post #500 gratitude!

I was surprised to learn that this is somehow the 500th post on my blog (according to a WordPress notification when it went live)!

If you have ever taken the time to read my musings over these past 500 posts: thank you!

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• Mansur. A Chameleon. 1612, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle via Wikimedia Commons.
• William McTaggart (1835-1910) – Dawn at Sea, Homewards – 2049 – Glasgow Museums Resource Centre via Wikimedia Commons.