Roll With It

Hey, so, here is what's on my mind today: change.
Yeah, pretty large topic. And I know it can seem a little, "teacherish" but, just roll with me OK?
You know how there are some people in all our lives who are older than us, wiser than us, and just generally there to give advice? Well, I met up with one such person the other day. There was a rather large topic that came up between us, and that was, yep you guessed it; change.
Now, you see the thing is, I'm not sure if I'm a fan of change? And I don't really mean the change that is happening to me and my friends simultaneaously. No, that kind of change I can deal with, because I create that change. I chose to go to sixth form. I chose to make the transition from GCSE to AS Level (a transition I've been warned about many a time!). I'm choosing to go to University and to study... well, that bit I haven't chosen yet! But all of that was my decision, yeah I had guidence, but ultimately it was I who made those choices. And while I am making those choices, so is everyone else, and that's great, because we can stumble and slide through them together!
That kind of change I'm cool with. It's the change that I have no control over that, let's be honest, annoys me! The kind of change that means so many people I have grown to know and love move away to different parts of the country. The kind of change that takes away people I don't feel I have had enough time with. The kind of change the moves away one of those people who I talked about at the start, the ones who are there for advice? The kind of change that makes me feel like I'm losing control....
And here's the kicker; I have no control! I never will! And it's not like I'm going to turn into this divine, ambrosial figure who will suddenly either have control, or be fine to let it all slip past without so much as a bat of her long lashes.
You want the second punchline; that's OK.
Change is going to happen, whether I like it or not. There's absolutely nothing I can do about it. We can either roll with the punches and benefit from it all, or sit back and resist the inevitable. I don't think the latter is a good option, do you? I guess at the end of the day, I just have to trust it all to someone who I believes knows what he's doing. Who knows, it may turn out to be ambrosial beneath the surface after all. :)

Word of the Day: ambrosial