Nothing is Ever Forever
I won't ask you to get out of your comfortable chair. Just imagine yourself stepping outside and looking around. If you see mountains, it wasn't always that way. If you don't, it wasn't always that way either. Water? It used to be dry land. Dry land? Water.
You hear this "forever" stuff from people all the time, at weddings, in pop music, on the street if you're listening. You may have heard it or said it yourself. "I will love you forever." "You and me, forever." I suppose it sounds better than "I will love you for a really long time." But use of the word "forever" is truly misplaced. Because nothing at all is forever.
You name it, folks. Mountains, plains, species, love, life, livelihood. Certainly, youth.
Get ready, loosen up, think about who you really are. Change is always on the way. Delta-current reality = a constant.
Depending on whether you know what's coming and how you feel about your current situation, maybe it can't come quickly enough. Then again, maybe the change that comes won't be the one you were looking for.
But for most of us, whatever sort of cash stream may be feeding us or the relationship that seems to make life worth living, is often in reality, hanging by a thread. An executive or political decision from somewhere else can end the economic health of an area or of a whole city. People die in accidents, or the inevitable changes that happen as people experience life events can also change minds, about who and what things are important, changing in turn the lives of others, often drastically.
Where I live, people tend to complain about the weather. They say: "If you don't like the weather here, just wait a minute." They believe it's too changeable. I don't think the weather here is bad at all. Hurricanes don't make it inland this far, tornadoes of any size touching down anywhere in the state would be big news. But observing weather is a lesson in life of sorts, because with weather, everything is affected by everything else. It's the same with just about everything, as it turns out.
So, say something happens, and you've suddenly got a huge problem that you didn't have yesterday. The only thing that will bear you up will probably be your own personal strength. Have you exercised it lately?
I would be very surprised if there's anyone out there at all who would be virtually unaffected by a revelation that no one actually cares about them, or worse. You just haven't lived until someone tells you something far worse than simply "You ain't shit." Yeah, I've been made to feel that way. Fortunately I've learned that no one has the right to do that to anyone. "Adversity builds character." Crap. It isn't necessary to belittle people to justify your decisions. If you're gonna do it, do it and shut up about it. Live and let live.
Not so long ago, I came to a very startling realization. I'd thought for some time that I really didn't like people. Maybe I didn't, I don't know for sure and it no longer matters, as I've discovered the reverse is true. It turned out that what I have a problem with isn't people, the problem is leadership, or the lack thereof. The influential, capable self-serving put people in power and we are left out of it. Period.
But I digress. Take care of yourself, if you don't know how, ask others, work on it, until you find out how. If no one else seems to care about you, you are simply mistaken. It isn't so. Friends of any kind are of great importance.
And even friends aren't necessarily forever.
