Don't Fear the Change

I would like to expound more on the topic tigga76 posted yesterday. Change. Change denotes the transition that occurs between one state to another. Charge is a force. Change can also be a choice. We all must go through many so call changes in life in order to grow.
My brother and his wife of sixteen years just recently broke up. My brother was wondering what he could do to repair their relationship. As a outsider looking in I told my brother that his wife has made a decision to go on with her life without him. I told him not to fear the change. Because fearing the change was not going to change the situation. Here, in this case, change was a force for my brother but a choice for my soon to be ex sister-in-law.
As for myself. Almost five years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was faced with some pretty heavy choices concerning my treatment or non-treatment. Again change was a force in this decision. But I also was allowed to make some choices for the changes that were to come.
Today I am a five year survivor. However I am soon to face that impostor "fear" again. The medication that I have been taking so faithfully everyday for the pass five years will soon come to a end. I don't know what the next step in my treatment will be. I'm going to feel strange not taking those little white pills any more. They gave me a certain amount of comfort. Knowing that the medication is in my system fighting off any new and killing off any old cancer cells. So I fear the change. But I will not and can not let fear make choices for me.
Or when my hair first started turning grey. That was a change I have no control over. Others would ask me why don't I dye my hair? My reply "Why should I". The dye will eventually wash or grow out and the grey hair will once again assert itself. So I just accepted the change.
Our parents and grandparents lived in a different world. Same planet (almost), different world. Change has brought about a different world than they grew up in. Many older people fear the changes that has come with the technological advances in this day. Many grew up in a age when they thought the idea of a television (and we're talking black & white TV) was impossible in their minds. Now look at where change has taken the television.
The world is a very different place than I grew up in. And it has even changed more doing the life time of my sons who are in the twenties now. Who knows what the world will be like when my grand children are adults.
Change is important. We all need change. It is not possible to grow without change. I mean what would the world be without change. Would we have evolved into the humans we are today? Can you imagine not having computers or the Internet, HD television or cellphones? All because of change do we now have these devices.
Change has two faces. It can be good as well as bad. It can be a force or a choice. It is what you do with that change when it comes to you that matters. Change is inevitable. So don't fear the change.

Brrrrrrr. It's getting cold outside. I hate the cold with a passion. I live in the mid west so it gets pretty cold. I heard the news lady announce on the news last night that there are 44 days until winter officially starts. To me winter started the first day it was to cold to leave my plants outside any more.
I always tell everybody that I was born in the south in the summer. In the "dog" days of summer. August. And I love the heat. For myself I rather be taking off clothes than putting on more.
I just am not a winter person. I often wish that I could do like the bears do and hibernate. Well not exactly like the bears. I don't want to sleep all those months away (Or do I?). However I would love to be able to stay in my house from the first snow until late April, early May. I would not want to have to leave my home for anything. I would have all the food, water and whatever else I require to take me through the winter. Or not. I mean I do have the Internet. I could always order whatever I need online and then it would be delivered directly to my door. Hmm. Maybe. Just maybe it would be possible for me to hibernate.
Reality? No. There are things and places that still must be done in person. Things and places that I cannot access on the Internet. Like I must take my car and get it prepared for winter. I need to go and get my flu shot. I got to go to the drug store and pick up my prescriptions, (they do not deliver).
I wonder If I could have a clear Plexiglas (not glass, glass could be broken to easily) dome made to cover my house. You know like the snow globes. MMMMMMMMMMM.

I Hate Crabs

I hate crabs. No not the steamed variety. I love Steamed Crabs. Mmmmmmmmm yumm. Or not the parasitic insect kind that you refered to as crab lice, also called body lice. Wouldn't want to ever have them. Ok so what other type of crabs are there? While there are many kinds of crabs I am going to speak on one very special variety. People.
People? Crabs? Can't see the connection? Well I call people crabs who don't want to see you advance, move forward, become sucessful. Why do I call them crabs? Well if you have ever been crabbing than you may understand. For those of you who have never been crabbing let me expound a little. After you catch the crabs you place them in a bucket. Now if you look into this bucket you will see the crabs "fighting" to get out. They are climbing all over each other. When one gets to the top and sees that he maybe able to escape this imprisonment. Another crab will grab onto him and pull him back down into the bucket.
So it is with people and life. There are people who just can't stand to see someone be more successful than they are. Anytime they think you may be on your way to obtaining your goals and aspirations these people will try with all their might to interfere somehow. These are the people who don't want to, know how to, or have the vision to be more or do more than what they sre currently doing. Nor do they want you or anyone else to do or be more than you currently are. So everytime you reach that summit in your plan, these people will see fit to find a way to try and destroy or alter your path. They want to pull you back down to where they are. I don't know why these people are like this or what reasons they have for not wanting others to move forward in life. Maybe these people have no goals or asprirations of their own. Maybe they are afraid that once you become sucessful you will forget about them (Well, yes, some of them I will love to forget ever exsisted.). Or maybe they are afraid of change.
You have to be aware of crabs. See them for what they are. Don't let these people keep pulling you back down into the bucket. When you you get close enough to the lip of the bucket. Quick latch on and haul yourself out of the bucket. Now you're back on the ground. But this is not the place to stop. Continue on with your plan. You still must get to the water. Beware of other obstacles in your way. But now you can take a short breather. You are out of the bucket. You have left the crabs behind. Beware! Crabs are everywhere.

Consistency

Consistence. That is what I have not been in writing this blog. I really intend to blog everyday. I do try. I do get up in time to blog every morning. And I'm not making any excuses for my not blogging. Some mornings when I get up I come straight to my computer to start working and my mind just goes blank. Oh yea, sure, when I first get up so many things are whirling around in my head. From fragments of dreams left over to what my schedule is going to be for the day.

Then lets add into the mix a mate who needs or wants something from you. Now I am away from my computer doing household chores, running errands here and there. By the time I'm done with all that my mind is so distracted that I can now not blog because I can't concentrate or focus for fear that as soon as I get absorbed into what I am suppose to be doing. Should be doing. Need to be doing. Someone or something else will come along to distract me.

Now you may say but this blog is the five-o-five. Aren't you suppose to blog when you first arise in the morning? Well yes. Can I actually blog at that time of the morning? Yes. And no. As I said before so many thoughts are bombarding me that I don't know what to blog. And like the creator of this blogging community I would like to blog what's on my mind first thing in the morning. I do not want to use some prewritten entry. No, because when I first decided to join this community I was the only one in my house getting up at five-0-clock in the morning. So I had quiet time to myself. Now my mate has ajusted his scheduel to get up at the same time I do. The distractions begin. My quiet time gone.

I am not going to make any promises. I do see the benfits of blogging first thing in the morning. So I will try harder to be more consistenced in my blogging every morning. Even if I just say hello to another morning that I rise. No excuses.

My Frist 5:05

bETWEEN dREAMS aND wAKING

OK, ok. It's not 5:05. I had to register for a blog. Anyway I decided to try this 5:05 thing. I've been trying to write a journal for many years. I always start but never keep up with it. When I was a kid I kept a journal (diary) for a couple of years, until my mother stole it and read it, but that's another story. I'm hoping by commiting myself to this 5:05 blogger group that I can displine myself to write everyday. I am again going to committ myself to writing my own private journal once again also.
So this is my first 5:05. Let me say hello and welcome to all. Check out the creator of the 5:05 at http://fiveo5.blogspot.com/. What am I'm going to blog about? Oh, I don't know, everything and anything. Why blog at 5:05? Well my circadian rhythm (body clock), wakes me automatically between 4:30a - 5:00a every morning. Usually I get up and first thing I turn on the TV. All those early "morning thoughts and other unscrambled dream data " are still floating around in my head. I figured maybe I can blog these thoughts and bits and peices of dreams and be able to start my day off in a clearer frame of mind. And as I mentioned before a good self displine. All are welcome to comment on any blog I post.



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