Spare change

It’s a word that most people fear, they ebb on the edge of their seats worried by it and Monarchs for centuries have fought wars in order to stop it from occurring. Change. Nowadays world leaders and key political figures use it as a positive emblem of hope, a beacon of the future to aim towards, but which do we trust the former belief of retaining tradition and colouring inside the lines or forsaking all others to step into the unknown and activate change? When change is brought to the top of the agenda we worry, because it will have consequences. Good and bad. But are the latter consequences, in the long term, always bad? This week as the tides alter and the stars shift to the Cancer sign, all cancerians can expect change and then I began wondering is all change bad?

Sometimes because we fear it so much we let it mislead us and we avoid it so much that it ends up to our detriment. We destroy the person we are for others whom have changed on their own agenda and don’t plan on having you as tightly related to it any more. If we try to hold on, then the longer we do the more dangerous the drop may be. Does this mean that change is unstoppable? Once the wheels are in motion does this mean that that’s it?

But what if we do try to hold on and then realise that we should let go…What if they person you were holding onto won’t let you go? Are you being stretched ever more between change and tradition? And will you end up more hurt in the end? Moving on is difficult but sometimes we have to cut ourselves loose, because the relationship we have is unsustainable. On reflection though what caused the change? And why did it happen? Can you change who you are or just your circumstances?

The truth is people never change, circumstances do. Inside we are always the same person, with the same thoughts and the only thing new is the experiences. But people who appear to change for no reason are nothing more than experienced actors. However, people do change when their circumstances do. Smokers sometimes quit when they feel unhealthy. Criminals might transform after their punishment. But change is undoubtedly difficult. And getting it right even more so. But we still ask is there such thing as bad change?

When we purchase products in a store and we get change, we are often reluctant to accept its value. The small value means that we see it as bad as it replaces a note with annoying pennies. But this IS positive. When it comes to it we have just received money, no matter how small. So what about when we spend a large note on a small purchase? We get lots of change and feel good because we can see its value is high. So although when we get our small change and we see it as bad if we were to make many purchases and add it up to larger amounts of change we may even be able to swap it for new opportunities or in our example a note.

So if we see change as bad in the short term, often it is positive and large in the long term. Therefore it isn’t detrimental and bad change is nothing more than bad perception of good change.

After all, it happens every day, the weather we rely on so much, the traffic lights that go red right in front of us, and our emotions that differ so often that they are uncontrollable. It is the reason for every achievement we make, every time we fail, it is change leading us somewhere new, steering in another direction. But we mustn’t hold on to that which is failing before us, because new starts are easy to achieve only if old endings are pain-free.

So take to the road and escape your limitations because you are free. And new opportunities may not be apparent when letting go but will soon take form and will open new roads ahead of you, new options, options of change. And we must collect all change because it all adds up to movement, motivation and make over. It all adds up to new horizons, far and wide. Take a leap of faith and grasp the swing of change. Believe.

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