As many times as I’ve changed residences, moved from one state to another, even moved from country to country, I’ve been filled with a mixture of apprehension and excitement.
For many of us, just moving from day to day, month to month or year to year creates a similar anxiety or a subtle excitement. It doesn’t matter whether we move in time or we move in space, there is one constant — change.
It seems a contradiction to say that the only permanent thing we encounter in our daily lives is change, but change is what it’s all about.
The process of growing from a child into a teenager and then into an adult is one that’s constantly filled with change. There is an urge written deep within us, in our very genes and spirit, to grow and change and become the best we can.
Sometimes the urge is buried under tons of daily woes or in the joys of the moment, but it is there, nevertheless. Many of us fear change because we are fearful of the unknown.
My old friend, Deepak Chopra, once told me that it is not the unknown we should be afraid of, but, instead, the known. The unknown is what will become the known as we pour...