Change: one step at a time
I asked SooZen this morning what I should write about? "Change" she quickly responded. Hmm... that word certainly has been at the tip of most everyone's tongue lately. Change in Presidents, change in political parties, change in economy, change in the way we do things... change, change, change... so much to change on so many levels. All this change could boggle the mind if we're not careful... we could start changing things without any priorities. "Spare change?" asked the homeless man who's tennis shoes had a tear in them so great than the upper part of the shoe separated from the rubber sole with each step. Time for a change of shoes. Time to question what will be done with the homeless. Change of minds, change of ideas, change of stations, change of music, change of religions, change of philosophies, change of entertainment and education and, and, and.... change of positions regarding damn near anything. Talk about change, this may very well be the largest shift of living we, the world, has to do in order to continue on our path of not only survival but understanding and knowing more than we have been lead to believe we need to know. Information is coming at us fast as light. How much can we consume before we explode into a chaos of bewilderment? This is that time - chaos may very well be the nature of change we must endure until stability of understanding mellows the confusion.
There certainly is need, a great necessity, to change our energy needs. There is the health issue where our food must be understood as the body's medicine.. our cure for dis-ease and not simply a means of substitution for loneliness. Change to real meaning without all the restrictive barriers of yesterday's ideals. We know many of those things that came before us are outdated and not necessary for our well-being. But we are reluctant to changing those things that we're comfortable with... not unlike the homeless man's tennis shoes, they still get him by until the time he can use what little money he gets to buy a pair of less worn shoes. Change is incremental. Most change doesn't come so quickly that we never expected it. Even violent storms shouldn't be unexpected given today's meteorological ability to at least see the storm's approach. Sure the storm will bring a change of some kind but it's not completely unexpected.
The reaction of Barack Obama's election set off a change that will take quite a bit of time to digest. It was a seismic event... even for Barack Obama, I'm sure. Nobody could have predicted the voter turnout for this man would exceed 7.5 million votes over his opponent. A country hungry for this six-letter word, change. Apparently a world hungry for the same, also. Our way of living has become stale and tiresome... it's become wearing on the mind and soul. Our lives have certainly been changed by this major shift of attitudes - the economy proves that not everybody wants to continue buying and buying and buying things and stuff that simply take up room... more room than most of us have and more room than most of us need. Our homes, no matter the size, are becoming storage areas for all the things we purchase. It's not that we don't have certain needs, but we certainly don't need all that we purchase. We've gone over our heads in debt to live that way. We are maxed out and are now wondering what we can do to pay this debt off. The world economy, national economy, state economy, personal economies... working furiously to find the solution to the problem. So we all slow down... and the economy suffers. We know we can't have everything, nor do we need everything, but it is exactly that frame of mind that built the economies that are suffering today. Just think of how many jobs were simply created around one theory: buy to keep the country employed. Even George Bush said 'go buy something' after 9/11... he knew as well as any economist knows that this present state of capitalism is completely addicted to buying. But now people are collectively tired of it all... "Is this any way to live, just working to buy?" CHANGE is upon us... major change.. bigger than we could possibly have anticipated.
This period should be a period of rejoicing. There is hope and there is promise. There are ideas and wonders to be had that none of us could have imagined even 5 years ago. Once the balance of economy is restored, there will be changes that bring light and joy to our lives instead of that feeling of doom and gloom that has set in for the past several years. There are many people out there than see how our future must be rerouted from the old road and onto the new in order to achieve these ideals and dreams we think about today. It's change. It's inevitable and it's necessary to achieve this new future that lies ahead. We have a choice - we can either scoff at the idea that something will change or we can be a part of the process of change, one step at a time. That's what change has always been - one step at a time. But with a destination in mind, those steps become easier and faster.
Take our personal lives... if we change from infancy to childhood, from childhood to young adults and changing to adults to mature adults... it's natural. This may well be one of those dramatic periods in human development where we step out of the sand box we've spent so many years, decades tossing the environment askew, doing whatever we wanted without any regard to the rest of life we share this planet with. We now know there is a link to all things living. We know the steps to attain our needs with the help of Nature and not the enslavement of Nature. We are all dependent upon each other in the larger scheme of things and if we acknowledge that we can become our promise of fully awakened beings free from the boundaries of our minds. We can live in harmony and peace once we accept the change that is necessary to do so... one step at a time.
cecil
09 nov 08
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