A Change gonna Come

Turned the key in the ignition, I ready to head out to work, I had a lot to do and was already late. As the engine revved and then settled down into a low purr, some hauntingly beautiful strains of music came through the car radio; it was from a song that I did not remember uploading to my music folder, “A change gonna come” by Otis Redding. I try to be always tuned to my surroundings and the way the music and his voice washed over me, creating a stillness and calm that made my being hurried to head to the 9-5 inconsequential, I understood that there was a message for me and one to share.

Oh, how so many of us hate change! It disrupts our nice, normal, boring pattern of life and living. It sometimes creates great upheaval that adds to our stress load. It brings about level of uncertainty that again adds to our stress load. So for a great many of us, change is not a welcomed visitor.

And there are others like me who revel in change. We get restless being in the same place doing the same thing. We feel that life is passing us by since we came into this physical existence with a long list of people to meet and things to do. We equate change with some level of not knowing but we believe it will all work out in the end. We exude a disgusting positivity that those same-same hoarders detest.

Change inevitably comes to all of us but how to embrace it depends on us.

Do we welcome it, anticipating the pot of gold that lies at the end of the process?
Or do we protest and fight, anticipating the lump of coal that lies at the end of it all?

Since we know that change comes as long as life continues, which do you prefer?
Gold or Coal?