Aug 17
Arch-a-thon Post #47: Adjustments
Adjustments are almost never easy. Because they usually involve resetting our comfort zones. And our comfort zones are comfortable because they don’t change.
Thus the conundrum.
At this hour, church is just letting out. On the first Sunday in which Archie has officially “left the building.”
It’ll be fine. It’ll be okay.
Change happens, and in this case, for a good reason.
I’ll be fine. I’ll be okay. Because I know this particular change is happening for an awesome reason.
Things were not meant to go on forever the way they are right this second. Life happens. (And don’t you just want to slug whoever came up with that little phrase?!?)
But think about it: if nothing was ever meant to change, we’d never get married, have families of our own, relocate here or there, form new friendships or grow in any way.
We’d just stay with our parents and never go from diapers to big-boy pants. And that would not be pretty.
So we have to find ways to celebrate changes, even when we don’t like them. I learned that lesson — or kind of did — earlier this year in the old workplace, where some responsibilities I had and enjoyed were basically reassigned and I was suddenly shut out from doing those particular duties. It stung a little, I’ll admit. And it felt like an insult to my intelligence when a manager tried to deliver the “change is good” speech.
Change often doesn’t feel good at the time.
But change is good. Change is necessary. It’s how we grow. And like it or not, it’s often what we need.
