As the calendar page turns to October, the leaves turn from greens to golds and the temperature begins to drop. Summer clothes are packed away, and tan lines fade as we reach for jumpers and boots, the familiar layers to wrap up in and snuggle into. We never expect that it will be otherwise. Resisting the turn of the seasons would be a futile place to burn up our energy and emotions. We know that Nature is in charge, and we surrender to it.
Yet we sometimes fight change when it arrives in our lives. We resist the transformative process from one state to another and hope that with enough force of our will and desire, we can keep things the same. We cannot. To be alive is to weather changes. To be human is to develop the ability to adapt and adjust as the changes come. Our security may reside in trying to keep things the same, but our character and evolution will come from how we walk through those changes. Change may be happening all around you, but stability can come from within you.
Autumn arrives each and every year and shows us, as only Nature can, that change can be challenging, and change can be liberating, but change is inevitable. It is how we manage ourselves in responding to change that matters most.
