Fall’s shifting colors reflect change. It’s fast. Sometimes planned, other spontaneous. Change today means so many things. If someone asked you a year ago what you’d be doing, how did you respond?
Were the first few words “social distancing” or “wearing a mask” in the grocery store? As a global society, no one predicted today’s events.
For some, this change devastates. Loss of family, friends, physical capacities. As far as daily living, it’s fearful and/or an inconvenience.
For others, it pushed a long forgotten lifestyle back to the forefront.
Change Brings Back Time
The magic of family time returns. Monopoly. Scrabble. Coloring books with crayons for kids. Coloring books with colorful pens and pencils for adults (links to Amazon). Sitting in the same room for more than a few minutes. Playing outside, both children and adults. More time with our fur kids.
In the remote area we live, we’re seeing city dwellers gobble land with moving intentions. Builders have a two year backlog. Is it reactionary? In some respects yes.
But, when talking with people who want to move here, it’s for quality of living. A sense of community. Bringing back the magic of real togetherness with those closest and most precious.
We’re Evolving
Throughout our personal and professional lives, change continues to be a constant. We’ve all experienced our own “COVID’s” at some point in our lives, they just weren’t visible globally or on the media 24X7.
Outside of personal tragedy, new ways of living make us stronger, more creative and more in tune with what’s really important.
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.“*
Bob Goff
*from Wise Old Sayings, Words to Live By
When we have the gift of personal health, the ability to think and reason, we get to choose. How we respond to change and forge forward. Forging forward is more than living with change, it’s embracing it. Living it.
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