Change. And Yes It Is Coming

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Crazy how that one just hits ya, isn’t it? It seems more adult when Barack says it. Change is always coming. It can be the weather, Washington, or in our own backyard. It can happen in minutes, 24 hours, or 3-1/2 months. Our job is to recognize it and react. If we stand firm, perhaps we look like a kick-ass martyr. But really we may break in the wind. Maybe we bend. Or maybe we allow the wind to blow us where we are meant to root…for that moment.

I keep thinking I’m a liberal, but really my rooting makes me seem like a conservative curmudgeon. Today I am ready for the wind and I’m not bending. Lift me to the next fallow field or let me root goddammit. But quit playing with me.

Sometimes you are the painter of your life and sometimes you are the canvas. Know the difference, dear friends. You may suddenly find yourself in the middle of the intersection. Standing there dodging traffic may make perfect sense. But is it the best use of you? Or could you be better served stopping traffic and changing the flow?

Don’t fear the inevitable. Reach your arms out and accept that the world has different ideas for you. It’s okay. Like a Nestle plunge into a mosh pit, accept that something will catch you. It may be you that catches you. But you got this. You’ve got this. You won’t let yourself fail. Your survival instinct won’t fail you now. It obviously hasn’t if you are reading this.

I won’t bore you with some contrived quote about how doing the same thing expecting different result is insanity (was that Sam Clemons or Confucius?). Just accept that there is a new deal on the table and you are ante’d up. You can fold, but you are smarter than that. Figure out the next moves and go forth.

Tonight I imagine I am tough as nails. I imagine standing up for what I want in that moment. And I slide the chips to the center to back up my bet. If your option is obsolescence or the abdication of your spirit, then what do you really have to lose? Nothing but you is the answer. So toss the vodka and throw down.

If I’m wrong feel free to leave a testimonial about how wrong I was. I don’t live for stars or 5 point rating scales. I don’t even care if this gets read. At least I said something. And that’s a damn site better than nothing.