By Jason Dagenhart
Round Table reporter

Life is always changing, always moving, and always shifting. It goes from one concept to the next; never giving a care to anyone it comes across. It just keeps going without a care or anxiety. Life changes, that’s a fact.

It will even change before you’re ready. It will just move on and shift into something uncomfortably new that messes with your mind and body and agitates you even further and plays with your mind. Like a cruel child playing with toys, life changes your scenery, your life, and your security in a split second.

One day you’ll love what you have, and in another that will be gone and done with and you won’t have a clue where it is anymore or even if it’s the same as it was before. Universally, this affects everyone, from little things like changing your hair style or going to a doctor’s appointment, to having your life split apart by a parent’s divorce or your break up with someone you’ve loved.

All of these little changes affect us. Our bodies become fragile and frail, our minds become weak and they suffer, and our lives open up into a whole new world of insecurity, helplessness, and fragility.

We can’t stop the change though, even though we try to. We all try to stop the unstoppable, but it’s fruitless. We can’t ascertain the ascertainable; we can’t be certain while in uncertainty. What we can do though is accept the uncertain and learn what we don’t know. There are new experiences and adventures to explore and navigate through in the unknown territory we call “change.”

Why not learn about the new world you live in? Why not do the best with what you have, where you are? The best solution is not to wither and die because the never-ending cycle of change is out and about, but to accept life as it is. The only thing to do is to live with what you have and accept, even unwillingly, what has happened and what has changed and what you now have to do to cope with it.

Change is a general nuisance, or if you enjoy it, a life-changing experience for the better. The only thing we can do is roll with it, because change is a natural process of life. It happens, and we deal with it when it crops up. Nothing we do is going to stop it, so we endure and thrive with the energy we have and the things we’re given.

That’s how it’s always going to be.