Change. It's a word that has thousands of different meanings. You can change the color of your hair. You can change the style of clothes you wear. These are types of change you can control, but there are some kinds of change that, no matter how hard you try, you can't control.
One of the biggest types of change you can't control is growing up. No matter how hard you try and convince yourself you live in Neverland, growing up is inevitable.
As someone that has personally struggled with change, I have tried to find ways to keep things from changing as I grow older. My family and friends would constantly tell me that what I was going through was normal, that its something everyone goes through in some way or another. Yet, I still had a hard time accepting it.
It's funny how sometimes a hundred people can tell you the same thing over and over but it continues to go in one ear and out the other. Its like something needs to be worded in a specific way for it to click in your own mind. I remember sitting in my room watching re-runs on TV when everything finally clicked for me. I was watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy, and something that was said on the show definitely changed my outlook on life.
"When we say things like 'people don't change' it drives scientists crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again." - Meredith Grey
I guess you could call hearing this quote on an episode of Grey's Anatomy my "lightbulb moment". I realized that simple, every day tasks can change the course of our lives. While things in our lives are constantly changing, it is ultimately up to us how we experience these changes. We can sit back and see what happens or we can take the bull by the horns and seize every opportunity we are presented with. I highly suggest you go with the latter.
