How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
I used to think that things were one way, then life came along and showed me some other possibilities. Like some kind of comic magic, I never thought like that again.
This has been my repeated experience. I think I grew up in a one dimensional, black and white home of sorts. This was perfect in its own way. I was paradoxically born with a mind that craved color and dimension.
Don’t get me wrong, I dearly love a comfort zone. I just don’t seem to be able to live very long in one. Change is more my constant. I do hope that will slow itself down at some point, but right now, I have to keep up. I want to! Perspectives keep changing wide and I want to change with them. I want to continue to stay open-minded and open- hearted. I want to keep practicing the process of regulation. I think it’s my most important lesson lately.
Sure, I’m learning about writing and marketing, but these are lessser, more superficial lessons that put me in an arena to learn and relearn about how to regulate, how to change my energy, how to intend, yet stay open. I’m not craving color over black and white, I love them both. I’m craving balance. I’m craving harmony. I want it all in the best proportions.
Peace Kit 
Nice post, Andrea. A long time ago, I learned something from a little book called “Who Moved My Cheese?” that has kept me on track. The story taught me the following: They keep moving the cheese (change happens), get ready for the cheese to move (anticipate change), smell the cheese often so you know when is getting old (monitor change), the quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you can enjoy new cheese (adapt to change quickly), move with the cheese (change), savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of new cheese (enjoy change), and they keep moving the cheese (be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again & again). Like you, I seek balance and, truly, a peaceful life without troubles. However, people in this world keep moving the cheese, so we need to keep moving and fighting the good fight. We’ll get there someday, I hope.
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Yes!
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If I knew then what I know now? don’t think it wouldn’t have made the difference, I had a super strict childhood, pretty much until high school, as soon as I got a little freedom I became stupid….and pretty much blew apart a decade of my life….once I grew up, and started doing what I wanted to and liked and not just grabbed onto any situation at random, life improved….life’s good now, but those 10 years, I wish I could have them back…..
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