No matter your perspective, you can’t ignore how change started the world’s engines-without it, you wouldn’t have breathed your first breath-or how it fuels our survival by providing ample scenarios for adaptation.
Change is so pre-historically natural to life that we couldn’t possibly live here without acknowledging and accepting it; yet we seem to have trouble digesting it.
At Matt Cheuvront’s rad blog Life Without Pants, I snagged a guest post on a multi-perspective discussion called The Inconvenience of Change. I went to school with Matt, and man, he’s a thinker! And a great guy to know! So pop over and visit Life Without Pants…and while you’re at it, discover The Sour Grapes of Lost Control
Chelsie – Thanks so much (again) for being a part of this – and I look forward to any future ‘musical’ contributions that you might be able to contribute (love the songs you have posted here – amazing voice, have you). In the end, change is something that is inevitable in our lives, whether we’re faced with it or bring it about ourselves, it’s always going to be there. Change has a funny way of ‘blindsiding’ (wink wink) us when we least expect it – but we’re defined not by the changes in our lives, but how we deal with them, learn from them, and grow from them that truly defines who we are and who we’ll become.
Thanks Matt, and I’ll be working on those musical contributions fo’ sho! (Nice Blindsided plug)
I’m glad you avidly agree that life is a learning process. From our philosophy class where we digested Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and The Matrix to entering the non-academic world, it feels like no mentality has lasted long enough for its change to spread to the rest of life. Now it seems, we’ve ripped the last bit of flesh from the bone and can now commence sucking the marrow out of life!
Not that there’s not loads to learn, but it’s nice to have the tools to enjoy the journey.
Well said – thinkers like us have to stick together. Why? Because we challenge one another to think more clearly and as you said, ’suck the marrow’ (OK, have to admit that sounds a little filthy). No matter where I end up and you end up – I hope our minds will connect and spark great discussion again and again. And I want the first copy of your CD once you take care of business there. Cheers to you Chelsie!