The Nature of Change

The nature of change.

I first wrote this at new year but managed to delete it by mistake without posting it. I am re-writing now because it still feels relevant.

I was sitting looking back at the passing of the old year and marveling at the changes I could see that have come over me in that time. Looking back it was easy to see how my perspective and perception of the world we live in have changed drastically in the space of a year, but it struck me that I hadn't really noticed these changes taking place as the year progressed and it was only now, in hindsight I was able to appreciate them.

I began to look further back into my life and where I've come from as a person. From a small child growing up believing television was a window on the real world, through being a disaffected youth searching what felt like a desolate world for something to identify with, and after not finding it turning into a cynical twenty/thirty something hell bent on working to make as much cash as possible, believing that was the route to happiness and well being, to the place I now find myself. I no longer watch television and am no longer a slave to the financial system we're forced to live under. I still work a little but only just enough to pay for what I need, and entirely on my own terms. I have come to see that money just enslaves us to the bankers and will never make anyone happy, nor will the things that money buys you. Happiness comes from inside you and exists within all of us waiting to be found and nurtured.

The point of all this is that all through my journey I have not seen the changes coming over me at the time, but they've been happening non the less.
Even these big changes have happened at such an imperceptible rate as to seem non existent at the time, but they were always happening and it's only now I can look back and see the journey I've made and how it's all been designed so perfectly to teach me what I needed to learn along the way.

The journey continues for me and I'm looking forward to looking back in another twenty years to see who knows what.

I share this in the hope it will encourage those who may be feeling stuck in their lives, struggling to feel the changes they might like to see in their lives, to keep going.
Life throws different and changing circumstances at us all the time and it can be hard to see the big picture through the smokescreen of day to day dramas.

It seems some really big changes happen un-noticed until one day you turn around and there they are, complete.

Namaste