"But I don't want things to change"

"You can't stop the change any more than you can stop the suns from setting"

I've been on a roller coaster of emotions lately, I guess it must be the change in seasons. They days are getting shorter, it's practically dark by the time I get home from work. I've been having a real problem sleeping, too, which makes the day seem so much longer. Oh, how I crave a night's sleep without interruption!!!

No one likes change, yet we face it daily. In the blink of an eye, our lives can change forever. Grandmothers die, babies are born. Our kids grow up and move out of the house. Some change is necessary, some change is totally needless. (Some change is very necessary, as in changing your underwear.)

Some of us perpetually complain we are in a rut. I say, cherish the rut! If your life is in a GOOD rut, definitely cherish the rut.


"Anakin, you've changed"

Some people change for the good, some for the bad. And it's amazing how fast one can go from one to the other. There are different interpretations of good and bad, also. Say you're on a diet, which most of us seem to be on one time or another. If you pig out and eat too much, you say you're bad. "Oh, I ate too much, I've been so baaaad!" Some people can be so devious they get away with everything. They are (sarcastically) called good. "She's so bad she's good."

And then there's the few coins you might have in your pocket. Why is that called change? For as long as I can remember, a penny has always been worth a penny, a nickel-a nickel, etc. It's the amount you can (or used to be able to) buy that's changed. Hence: Change.

Change: To BECOME different - or - to MAKE different.

Can we control our own destinies? Could Anakin have controlled his destiny or was that set in stone the minute he was conceived? Could the choices he made in his life had a bearing on how his life turned out? Is that true for any of us? Would Padmé actually been able to change Anakin once he completed that path to the Dark Side?

I've really been in to the music of the 60's and 70's lately, I suppose it takes me back to a time when my life was simpler, when my parents were the ones that had to worry about change. Like Stevie sang, "then my only worry was for Christmas what would be my toy"
I've got a new favorite radio station that plays all my old favorites, so I've been a little nostalgic lately. Some songs lead me to think of other songs. I heard Bob Dylan's Times They Are A-Changin'....which led my thought process, oddly enough to Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want. Coincidence?

See, I've changed the subject a number of times without actually CHANGING the subject.

Well, I'd better close this out and post it before I change my mind.


***Ironically, when I went to close out my word processor, I got a message that asked me if I wanted to save any changes.

(Now that is going to require some thought.)

GB