Change: Villainous, yet Requisite

If one were to count how many words in total there were containing each individual letter of the word change, c-h-a-n-g-e, there would be about 68,300 words in total. Thus, showing without doubt that the opportunity for flexibility and transformation are attainable. If this is the case why is the idea of change so undisputedly dreadful for the masses? The word change is undoubtedly more frightful than the dark, spiders, or clowns because change is unavoidable. Knowing that it will come at the worst times and the fact that there is no real way to stop it ingrains the idea in one's head that nothing good lasts forever.

If you were to ask me, in all seriousness, what I wanted to be when I was 8, I would have said a professional ballerina. Devoting myself to dance for 8 years, every day, without hesitation, because I loved it. Shortly after, everything changed and I was doing the same with volleyball. My newfound love for a sport had never ignited such a flame as this one. For years I was convinced that playing division one volleyball once I reached college was written in stars for me. Until yet again, change crept along as it always does and everything seemed to change before my eyes.

Change has a mind of its own, a funny way of introducing itself. Change is often conveyed as a grotesque, monstrous being whose only ability is to do harm to those it holds captive. It seems as though change strangles those vulnerable and will at any given opportunity. However, what changes's victims are short on, is the fact that they will make it out. Make it out alive, that is. When change examines its phone book, it chooses those who need it the most. Instead of victims, change's recipients soon turn into an heir. An heir of new beginnings, a revival from their past, or rather in simpler terms, a fresh start, or a clean slate.

Change is a terrifyingly real concept that will never disappear. Individuals must learn to live with it, or learn how to not live at all. Consequently, instead of thinking of change as brutish, think of change as benign.