Change
The past few days have been filled with change or change producing events. Friday I closed on a house, but have to wait 60 days for the previous owner to move out. Yesterday, I retrieved some more of my belongings from my ex-wife, and I also finally got my dog "Dixie" from her. All of these are happy events. But this morning I awoke to sadness. Tearful sadness. Emotional pain. I didn't and really still don't understand it, but decided I would take Dixie for a walk to give her some exercise and to try to clear my head. As we walked, I pondered the emotions going through me and came to the realization that change, like the coins in your pocket change, has two sides. A positive or happy/joyous side like having my own home again, having more of my "stuff", and having my dog. But there is a negative/painful side to change in that the conditions we are/were accustomed too before the change(s) are now gone or different. We may be in a better place, but we are no longer in the familiar place that had become comfortable, even though we may have been unhappy or even miserable. Does that make sense?