This only being #2, I am not finished with Change Week!
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I read a blog post today from a man who is dead. It was written before he died and posted by his family when he passed. He talked about something that you don’t often hear discussed. He said he was making the great transition from human organism to corpse.
My thinking about what it means to be at an end of something changed a bit after reading that. Even when we are finished, what we really are is finished being conscious of ourselves as we once were. We still continue to change into something else. Maybe it’s spiritual, maybe it’s not. But we change no matter what our beliefs are.
But in the context of being alive and conscious I think the quote is true. Even if every part of you has been chopped down, you still need to work to grow again. You might not be the mighty oak anymore. You might not be the mother of young children who are dependent on you. Maybe they have grown and moved away. Then what? Are you going to just sit down and die?
No, you are going to eventually realize and accept a change has taken place and adapt to it. Keep growing, keep moving forward. It’s not only good for you, but it’s good for those watching you, especially your children!
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Printer, Inventor, Scientist, Signer of the American Declaration of Independence.