Can You Spare a Little Change?
11/25/07 12:12 PM
Moonflower seed pod. Chuck Pace ©2007
After the Moonflower has lost its fragrance and beauty, it still has its heart, which houses the seeds of all its future beauty and glory.
We all have our moods and our swings of said. You are no different than me, your reactions to such external forces and their pressures applied may differ, the level to which you externalize the internal strife may vary, may be more flamboyant or extremely subtle. But there is a mental change, an emotional state change and nearly always a physiological change too. It may be a difference in appetite, sleep, appearance, habits or tolerance to others. Often this swing and its resulting change are actually an acceptance of an earlier change that you refused to recognize or were unwilling to accept when it happened. Creatures of habit do not like to see habits altered, changed or discarded. The adjustment must be incorporated into the creation of a new habit or added onto an already existing routine in order to assimilate the change, this too is a stressful acceptance in and of itself. Add to the daily survival seasonal expectations, and you further compound change, and thus strife.
Climate change?
The dilution or dismemberment of a family unit?
Financial reality vs. seasonal expectation fantasy?
Perhaps it is the advent of another Holiday season, and its forced, conflicting, misguided or presumed messages offset by its commercial, greedy, disingenuous evil twin. Are you depressed by the veneer of holiday cheer over a particle-board mishmash reality? Here is my first gift to you, maybe my only gift, and hopefully my greatest gift.
May the ability to see that there is less luster to the artifice, and less need for the token offering to the genuine be your beacon through these stormy seas of season.
Love those that you have loved. Share with those with whom you would share. Care for all who have cared for you, enjoy the gift of comfort with those who accept you with your faults, foibles and weaknesses and you will have the holiday of compassion, sharing and caring all your days, not just from Halloween to New Years.
If you only help others when you are being watched. If you only give when there is the chance of getting. If you don't hurt when those around you or close to you hurt or struggle, then regardless of you fortunes you should look for a little change. True giving enriches the giver. True caring makes you truly cared for. If you know the kind of person you are, so does everyone else.
Chuck Pace © 2007
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