We all know nothing stays the same.  It's a fact of life. Everything changes.
Sooner or later, people leave, children grow, adults get older, beauty fades, night becomes day, friends become enemies, prices increase...

We change jobs, moods, interests, behaviors, priorities, etc...

But everytime it happens, it feels like a traumatic event. We can't always accept changes immediately. We know it's coming, yet we have to go through all the stages of grief every single time.

When we're personally undergoing one of those crucial changes in life, it feels like the world is ending. The earth stops turning. We lose our balance because we think those intense changes only happen to other people. It's the first stage. Denial. We keep clinging to a false hope this change won't last. Things will go back to normal.

News flash? They don't. Because change IS normal... We just don't let it sink in fast enough.

Then we get angry because things are suddenly out of control and we don't know yet how to handle it. It is frustrating, I admit.

After that comes, Overthinking, guilt, blaming ourselves, other people and the circumstances for the sudden shift in the universe.

Later, as the new reality begins to sink in, we reach that gloomy phase where we know deep down things are not going back to what they were. It's a done deal now. It's often sad, disappointing, and  we feel helpless when it happens, but eventually we need to accept it in order to move on and live our lives again.

Change is inevitable. That is life. It is what it is. The sooner we get to that conclusion, the better we can cope. These changes and how we deal with the is how we evolve and become wiser and more engaged with reality.

Personally, I think it sucks, but again. It is what it is.

MB