There are times in our lives when change naturally occurs. Sometimes we enable it. Sometimes it happens and we have no control over it.
I have done a lot of thinking over the past few weeks about what it means to change things in our lives, and how often do people really make a conscious effort to change?
Whether its ourselves which we are working on, or things around us, change naturally occurs. It can be loosing contact with a friend or making an effort to break old habits. But how often do we really set out to change our lives for the better? To make an effort to ensure that our futures and tomorrow's are brighter than our today's? The unknown is always the scariest place to be, but in those times aren't they often the ones which you look back on and think, 'that was for the best'?
Change can occur in our lives at any point, sometimes big, sometimes small. But the most important thing is to be open to change. Our lives would never move forward if we didn't take a chance, or strive to go for the things in our lives that really matter. The things which we think will make a difference.
A change has happened in my life which is huge, it will change everything for me, and for others close to me. I never saw it coming, never anticipated being in this situation. I could sit and think about how scary it is, how everything I know and am comfortable with, is suddenly about to change and become the unknown. Or I could look at it as an opportunity, a chance to make an unexpected change in my life, and for this to be possibly the best thing that ever happened to me.
Everyone has things which they believe in; karma, fate, destinies. The truth is none of us are right and none of us are wrong. Everyone has the right to believe in what they want to. I personally am a firm believer in fate, things that happen which were meant to be. Things which you would never have thought, or things which happen in peculiar ways.
Sometimes you can feel that no matter how much you try, you get pulled down a path you never would have pictured yourself on. The difference in all of this, is you can either look at it as a positive or a negative. If like me you are a positive person, then why wouldn't you grasp an opportunity with both hands? If something happens in your life that you have no control over, or an opportunity presents itself in the most unusual way, why question it? After all, aren't we all supposed to find our own paths in life? What's to say that, that specific event wasn't sent to you by some strange twist of events, or a guardian angel?
Now for most of you will probably think that fate is rubbish. Or that there is no one looking over you. And that's fine, but for those who like to think that there is something out there, greater than themselves, they will understand the feeling of things being bigger than just you, and being a set of random events coming to one conclusion.
Changes & evolution happens in our lives big and small all the time, every day. The difference is that when it really matters, you have to be brave and believe that everything is for a reason and that's how you have ended up at this point in your life. But if you don't realise that you have an opportunity and you are too busy looking at everything else around you in such a concrete way, life will pass you by.
The one thing which people always say will happen on your death bed, is that you will look back and will think of the opportunities that you didn't take, but wish you had. It's always said but it's so true, life is too short. None of us know how long we are really here for, so if tomorrow was your last day, would feel that you had made the most of it? Or would you feel that life and its opportunities had passed you by?
xoxo E
