CHANGE

Some say its necessary, some say it's the spice of life, to others yet, it's a bane to their life, a detriment to their very existence.

All this fragmented thoughts crossed my mind on a cool Monday morning, and just like the blue azure sky above me, the answers to my questions will not be easy to reach(if even possible at all).

Nevertheless, I shall put down my thoughts...

We all know that change is necessary, in fact, it is essential, albeit, bitter.
It is something which may help us survive the cruel things that may be hurled our way in life. To a certain extent; it makes us flexible enough that we do not snap against the winds of change.

An analogy to that would be the story of a tree and the small plant, of which I'm sure most of us have heard of......sure, the small plant with, flexible stem vacillates with the wind and is perceived as being incapable or inferior, whereas the tree with strong, rigid trunk stands unfazed by the wind with pride. A strong gale blew across the land one day and the tree, being proud, tried to withstand the force of the strong gale. Its trunk snapped, farewell tree. The small plant, being flexible swayed along with the gale and survived.

Ever-changing is the nature of nature in itself; so much so that it appears to me that any point in my lifetime thus far has always been transitional, never reaching any destination whatsoever. When we travel, we always have a purpose and destination in mind before we set out on any grand voyage. What then is our purpose and destination in life? Is it death?

To the first issue I brought up, it is ridiculous to think that our purpose in life is to die, for if that were the case, why were we b rought into existence in the beginning? Wouldn't that be an awful waste of nature's resources?

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, I choose to believe that life is a blank cheque, the purpose and meaning of life is whatever you want to make of it, and that it would be absurd that our purpose in living is to leave the world of the living, unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the second issue on our destination in life, reason being that we cannot hide from the fact that people do die.

After all that had been said about change being necessary/ essential, I beg the question...why is that so?

That, I do not have the answer...
What I understand is that nothing transcends time save for change, for even before time was recorded, changes have been taking place, shaping, molding, transforming the environment we now live in.

Change, I have come to believe, is the very essence of life itself, and that we have to live with it, be it to our delight or dismay....we have to trust our unknown future to our known god.

By :- Tara Limbu

Singapore