So I have been waking up real early for the last two days. It's been interesting. Firstly, there is the calm, which I can only describe as the peace of absence. My morning is not rushed and it's kind of zen really. The office is quite, feels like a place I meditation with the gentle peaceful hum of the machines almost as if they were dreaming of electronic ambitions.
It's starting to get dark, cold and rainy and we're in daylight saving time until next month, so there is a marked change about the world around me. I like change. It kinda reminds me that while things can change around me, essentially certain things about yourself don't change with the seasons. For instance, I still run, only is darker, wetter an more cold. It feels different but essentially it's the same. I've always gone running. How I feel about my goals don't change either. It's remarkable how change can most times, registers that opportunistic moment, where a new decision can be made. Sort of like "well, I might as well do this now, as this change seems a good a time to do it as any". Thing is, while changing is often in response to Changes, it's can also serve to reiterate why you decide at that point, instead not to change. For example, say it's getting really wet outside and when you run say your feet get really soggy, wet an uncomfortable after runs. It's possible to stop, due to the changes in the seasons. You have more opportunity to stop running because if this experience happening to you now than if it wasn't regularly raining while you run. The thing is, you actually love running, stopping would be stopping what you love, but having soggy feet is worse. So you stop running and don't get soggy feet. The thing is you took the opportunity to stop and you stopped. That how easy change can make you change. The alternative would be to have waterproof socks and continue running. And you love running. Taking that opportunity to change and not changing is buying waterproof socks and going running. Sometimes I wonder why we don't see the alternative as often. The reason simply is, stopping is more appealing so we don't invest in continuing without change. Maybe we don't invest in our interests long enough, maybe we have short attention spans or maybe we just don't think our goals are worth perusing anymore. If anything, change that. The belief in ones goals should be able to withstand the persuasion change all around us.
That said, there is the other side if the story, but that's the other side...and I haven't got much I'd like much to say about it.