There are few certainties in life: One is death. Another is to live until then. A third is change, although all things repeat.

There is change and then there is true change: One is the turning of time and the repetition of events, contextualized for a current milieu, since consciousness always follows a path that is familiar. The other is when something new is tried: This is the boulder in the stream. Usually, the boulder is not large enough to stem the flow, and the course of events stream to either side, changing nothing. If it is large enough, the flow still does not stop and instead builds up and overflows in an angry torrent. However, if there are enough boulders in the stream that insist on a change of course when the flow is at a low ebb, then there can be a subsistence of the flow, followed by a re-emergence in the new direction.

Change is the catalyst to move an organism forward and sometimes into new directions to fufill a larger, overall pattern. However, change that occurs too abruptly will only damage. The trick to handling damaging change is to find within oneself acceptance of the situation as it is, not as one wishes it to be. If the scale of a too abrupt change is also very large, then for the most part, adjustment will not work; it will only work for individuals and smaller groups.

In change we find the collision of objective reality and the subjective creation of that same reality. Since reality is made up of consensus agreement about perceptions, then that reality becomes something unto itself. If enough attention of consciousness is given to something, then it can become infused with a level of consciousness itself. Thus we have an objective intrusion into our ponderings of the world around us, forcing change as what we have been contemplating initiates changes for itself perhaps, just by coming into a new stage of being.

Each new thing is there to provide momentum forward for those who come before. We are the demonstration of what can be: Whether we are a cautionary tale, or an idealization is mostly up to us. We are the moment of change and the time of its materialization is when our resolve solidifies within us. From that second onwards, we become the force of what we brought into this world for we are convinced of ourselves, though for most of us, we would identify this as convinced of where we want to go.