How about them changes?
Our lives have these little chapter breaks scattered throughout where something major changes or we take on a new role. Moments like going off to college, or becoming a new parent. These changes throw most of us off our groove, but I’ve always looked at this as something special.
It’s during these moments when you’re also most likely to have a big shift in your mindset, priorities, values, or beliefs.
I think it’s no surprise that there’s a correlation between being closed off to new ways of thinking and having done the same thing year after year with little variance.
Lately, I’ve been trying to pay close attention to how things are evolving within me. Hopefully in the direction of empathy, hopefulness, and aliveness.
Less than two years ago, right around the time I snapped this picture at Mormon Row, life was almost entirely different. Then, in seemingly the smallest window, I became a dad, entered my thirties, then learned about two more kids on their way. Oh, and a whole pandemic basically upended the world I was used to.
I think that decades from now, Inshallah, should I get the gift of looking back at the present moment, I’ll be seeing it with a whole lot of wonder. What a wild couple of years. How’d we even do that?
For the time being, I think I’m too close to the moment to have a deep understanding of how everything is changing, just an awareness that it is. But I can note that this chapter has made me feel all the more thankful for the little bits of good that make my life what it is.