A Reading on "Change" Big changes require many small ones. Any change seems sudden, regardless of how much
we prepare for it. We wait for it, ask for it, expect it, and resent its intrusion.
Change is needed to stay young and vital and moving. Without it we stagnate,
lose our keenness of thought, and too often fall into melancholy. Even in
the best of times change takes a certain amount of adjustment. Our biggest problem
with change is that we expect it to be bad rather than something that will
make us happier. To a tsa su ga, a flea, a dog is the whole world, says a Cherokee. As much as we like where we
are, it isn't the whole world. There are bigger things---and better. We have to
be able to see beyond the dog. ~~~From A Cherokee Feast of Days by Joyce Sequichie Hifler, page 177 |
