change

Being Told to Change

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I must admit I have a personal weakness — I hate to be told to do anything, much less change. While I believe in the importance of change, and always challenging one’s views against the changing backdrop of the world as it may appear today, I have an awful strong resistance to being told to do one thing or another.

Distant

When people tell me something, my first response is either no or that I am morally right. I can be an awful difficult person to bargain with, and sometimes I should take my hat off and put it behind me and realize that I’ve made a mistake. Yet, too often I fail to do that until it’s too late. I hate to be viewed as a total jerk with things, but sometimes that just in my nature.

Closer

I need to learn to accept the changing world, and make sure that I know all the facts before I tell people no. Sometimes I should just be honest and say I need more time to consider the proposition before I tell people what I really think of them.

Time Disappears

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It seems like as one gets older that the time goes by quicker and quicker. Days and months that once seemed like they could last forever, quickly recede into the past, and the world continues to change in ways that only a few years ago seem unimaginable.

Reflecting Clouds

The past summer disappeared in a blink of the eye. While it originally seemed like it would last forever, it is now gone. It’s already started to get colder out. When I was younger, time never seemed to disappear so quickly. The youthful innocence of yesterday has disappeared.

Farm

I don’t really know how to react to all these changes in my life. I just take them in one day at a time.

Time in a Bottle

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“There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do when you find them.”

— Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle, 1973

The song, Time in A Bottle was release posthumously to Jim Croce’s death in a plane crash. In many ways the irony of this song made it particularly sad. A romantic love song, those lyrics have particular meaning outside of a relationship.

These lyrics stress the fundamental problem of time — it’s unlimited until you find a use for it. By the time you find the meaning in something you are doing, it’s too often on it’s way out. Certainly that was true for Jim Croce, whose death came as his singing career was only starting to reach to a pinnacle. It’s also true in our lives.

Golden Rods

They say that man has a remarkable ability to destroy what he loves the most. By the time one has found his real passions, others have already taken it up and used or abused it. Or we might no longer have time in our lives to do the thing that we really wanted because we got committed to doing other things.

We have to constantly be evaluating our world around us and searching for our passions. We can’t be afraid of our changing selves, and embracing the world. We must do what we believe in, and be the change that we see needs to be done. There simply is no time to be afraid as if we pause our dreams will go up into smoke.