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I’m currently going through some professional upheavals.  I’m one of these people that always seem to have a roller-coaster life.  Up, down, loop-de-loops and all of it at 80 mph with the wind in yer face.

Sometimes, I wonder why things always seem to change so frequently, and/or drastically, in my life.  I figured it out though.  I live a life of constant motion.  Always have.  I think I attract change, in ways I don’t realize.  I can’t sit still much of the time, and I like to make things happen.  Conversely, sometimes things happen to me.  This is what I get for being a spit-into-the-wind type.

Recently I took a bad situation and bought a reprieve, by harnessing a change I couldn’t control, and changing elements of it to suit my own needs.  It set off a chain of new, related events that so far, are positive.  It may have been the most signifigant career risk I’ve ever taken, but I’m getting points for guts, if not brains.  Meantime, I’ve found that there’s such a thing as making your own luck. 

I always preach that there’s two kinds of change; the change ya make, and the change that happens to ya.  Far better to initiate your own changes, then to sit back and let others decide your life’s turns.  Of course that sounds great on paper, but I’ve been known to steer for the cliff a time or two.  Making SMART changes…that’s the thing.

The tradeoff of things changing alot, is never feeling too secure.  I feel like I can’t afford to get used to someone or something being around.   People wander in and out of my life;  jobs change, companies themselves change.  And hell, the weather changes, the seaons change…so why do I think anything is supposed to be the same?

I realized somethin’ kinda freaky, then.  There is one absolute, changeless state, being death.  That’s the point where nothing else changes on us; where the capricious whims of the universe no longer sweep us along. 

Being in no hurry for that - as I’ve really started to enjoy the planet here in the past several years - I’m re-thinking how I tackle change.  Without sounding too much like Scott Adams or some whacked-out theorist, I do believe there’s a combination of Fate and Choice at work in people’s lives.  I don’t think every event is an absolute given; but I think some elements are what they are, and our reactions, the path we choose, bring us the aid - or the opposition - that is appropriate.