Almost a month and I haven’t written anything. I’d like to say it’s because I just didn’t have anything to write, but in reality I think I could write an entire novel about the last thirty days of my life. There is one thing that I’ve definitely figured out though: It’s possible for your entire life to change in the blink of an eye.

It’s very easy to get comfortable with your life, taking for granted all the stable things around you. You wake up each morning and go through your day, going to work, seeing friends, relaxing, and it all just happens naturally. It all just is.

But then a morning comes that changes it all. There is no rhyme or reason to it; it just sort of pops up and something in your life gets thrown out of whack. Sometimes it’s small and you recover quickly – you run out of gas on the freeway, you get in a fight with a friend, you catch a cold. Other things, bigger things, that keep your life out of whack for a long time – you get in a car accident, you lose your job, someone close to you passes away.

Either way, these events make a person stop and think. They make a person look at their life and actually see what it is they have in front of them. I feel like this entire month has been just that, a month of eye opening events that have thrown my life out of whack, but have helped me see my life instead of taking it for granted.

I could go on about all the things that have happened; I could complain about them and go into detail about how life dealt me a few bad cards recently. None of those things though are all that important. What’s important is what  I have gotten out of them all.

I think the major thing that I have learned is that you can’t stop change from happening. As much as you might like a particular time in your life you cannot stop life from moving forward and things about that particular time from changing. Places, jobs, people, relationships; none of it is constant.

I also learned that change is okay. Sometimes change is exactly what you need, even if it’s the last thing you think you want.

Today has been a very eye-opening day for me. I have finally said goodbye to something that I never thought I’d walk away from. I’ve spent the last two years trying to recreate a part of my life that, in reality, died when I moved back to Washington over two years ago. Today I finally let myself let it go and as sad as that is, I feel inspired. I feel freed from a constant frustration and constant burden. Trying to recreate a snapshot in your life can be exhausting. Sometimes you just have to be okay with moving forward and finding something new to replace that snapshot. I think the most exciting part of today is that as soon as I let go of that old part of my life, I realized that I had already replaced it with other things. I was just letting them be shadowed by my old life.

I realized today that no matter how great a certain part of your life was, there are so many possibilities for better things to come along. I think letting go of this burden will make it that much easier to move forward and grow toward new happier things.

Change is scary. It can be heartbreaking and it can be frustrating. In the end though, change is what makes life worth living. If things just stayed the same all the time how much fun would that be?