Changes in Lattitude. Changes in Attitude.

I feel a need to apologize. Yeah, apologize. You see, I’ve been a bit lax with posting new entries to my blog ‘Tattered Laces’.

Now my recent distance toward the fine cyber community had nothing to do with any hurtful comments that might have been made, or in fact any ill feelings toward the lack of interests a post here and there might have received. No, honestly, the blame can be solely directed toward ‘changes’.

You see for the past couple of months, my life has been constantly changing – and we’re talking major changes both financial and personal.

However through it all, as true with all the changes we face everyday, we rely on our inner strengths in order to learn and grow. And no matter how old we may be whenever those life-altering changes occur, in the long run we can weather the storms.

Does this mean that during these changes that we should let all else that has been a foundation crumble away? Crumble away by focusing more attention toward those changes and not the reliable things in our lives? Well you see, that’s how I ‘dropped the ball’. Instead of becoming overwhelmed with the temporary changes that had landed in my path of life, I should have held tightly on to the stable things and used them as a crutch to help me along - even if one of those ‘things’ was this 500 word blog written twice a week.

So whether in the workplace or your personal life, don’t forget to use those stable things whenever going through changes. Be it a daily routine, a favorite lunch hangout, watching a favorite program on TV, or just playing with your kids or pets… you will find that it’s those types of things that will help keep you sane during the chaos that changes seem to bring.

Change really is a good thing. And though at the time we may not see its benefits, we all know in our gut that change happens for reasons. And since having to deal with change since the moment we were born, we also know that we will all be just fine.

Just a note though… if things DO start to seem too crazy, remember those prolific words penned by Jimmy Buffet:

It's those changes in latitudes / changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same / With all of our running and all of our cunning / If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.