Change

Change should be a four letter word. No one really likes change, it's scary and uncomfortable, but what if—what if on the other side of it were more happiness and joy than you ever imagined? Would you still be afraid? 

Changing anything in our life means stepping out from under our warm blanket of familiarity and security and into the unknown. Sometimes we may even go to the edge of our comfort zone and peek at what's over the line, but always retreat back to what we know—it's safe after all. So you have to ask yourself...do I want to play it safe, or do I take a chance? 

We are all changing whether we realize it or not. We grow up, we grow older and wiser. We don't want or need the same things we did ten or twenty years ago. That kind of change happens so subtly, we don't necessarily notice it, but it happens nonetheless. Then sometimes life makes us face change, because of bad choices or decisions we have made, and then we must endure situations like a bankruptcy, or job loss, or loss of a loved one. In those moments we are defined, because on the other side of those hard life changes we learn something about ourselves. Hopefully, we are made stronger, we are made better. 

Making a conscious decision to change something about yourself or your life is the Universe's way of keeping spirit moving forward—to keep it growing. We are here to experience life not just to live it. When your life presents you with the opportunity to have a new experience that makes you want to change I believe that is the soul's way of telling us that we are not fully living. We are missing something, or maybe someone in our life that would make us whole, but we have to have the courage to face change.