Everytime I find the meaning of life...they change it...

Change seems to be all around us. It's the word of the day this year- political change, religious change, social change. Endless change has become a relentless constant in our lives. The bad news is that change can be hard and is often complicated. The good news is that if you're reading this blog, you're most likely of a generation that greets change at the door with a warm smile, a big hug, and invites them in for a cold beer and some friendly banter. I asked some friends to take a clever "Cosmo"-style "what's in? what's out? approach to change and report back. The results were classic wit:

In: Out:

Green/ Goth
PDA's/ PDA
Blogs/ Beepers
Reality/ Shows Reality
Texting/ Talking
Hybrid/ High Octane
Email/ Snail Mail (This one is a personal tragedy for me)
Climate change/ Global Warming
Corporate Responbility/ Corporate Greed

The moral (if there is one) to this ditty is to chill out when it comes to our world's constant state of modification. Don't take change so seriously. Adopt change....or don't...who cares really? Either way, consider it, ponder it, brood over it like a cup of hot tea, and for crying out loud QUESTION it! But don't ignore it, because the world will pass by with little regard for your inability to cope. Accept, decline, or abstain- your choice.

The thing about change that is so enticingly liberating is that while it gives you just one more opportunity to actively make your own choices, it's still going to happen...with or without you. It happened before you. It will happen after you, and it's how you deal that defines you. Change...deal with it.