Cosmic Gardener – Cultivating a Life

The other day in friendly banter a chum asserted, “Well I’m just a creature of habit.” A statement far from true for this friend who tries on new experiences like some do clothes. I challenged the comment. His response, “Change is a habit!” In that heartbeat my thoughts shifted from the assumption that being a creature of habit was just an excuse for inappropriate behavior to maybe not so much.

Change has not always been a friend of mine; forget making a habit of it. Early in my getting-it-together years I sat in a Leo Buscaglia audience and listened to him rhapsodize about “The glory of the life that embraces change.” Yah. Right. At that time in my life if rollercoaster had been a sport mine would have reflected the extreme version. I was a bit taken aback by his bold and what seemed to me Pollyanna statement but out of respect for his thinking I committed to look at change through a softer lens.

Venice Bloodworth, a teacher and author from another era influenced my thinking early on:
“When change begins to occur one of two things is going to happen,
you are either going to end up in a better position or you are going backward,
and whatever occurs will be in strict accord with your predominant state of mind.” 

 I had already figured out that, ‘The one thing on which you can rely is Change’ (Keys #35) so I decided to begin to expect and embrace positive constructive change. I have since come to believe that Change is not only a Constant, Cosmic, Challenge but also inherently a part of the human DNA.

Change is a habit. Make it a good one.