Comments on: Moving Again http://www.webs05.com/2008/06/08/moving-again.html Altruistic IT Writings Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:42:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Webs http://www.webs05.com/2008/06/08/moving-again.html#comment-6115 Webs Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:01:31 +0000 http://www.webs05.com/?p=431#comment-6115 So true, and thank you for those words DOF. My Dad always told me the difference between really successful people and successful people is change and being able to embrace it. I'm still okay with change, but in the immediate short term it kinda sucks. So true, and thank you for those words DOF.

My Dad always told me the difference between really successful people and successful people is change and being able to embrace it. I’m still okay with change, but in the immediate short term it kinda sucks.

]]> By: decrepitoldfool http://www.webs05.com/2008/06/08/moving-again.html#comment-6113 decrepitoldfool Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:13:39 +0000 http://www.webs05.com/?p=431#comment-6113 Impermanence is one of the essential properties of existence, Webs. Relationships can be long-lasting but they do change, and necessarily so because their manifestation is embedded in time, place, and circumstance and those things change. Don't confuse the manifestation with the thing itself. We will miss you, and hope you will "stay in touch" but it is a mistake to try to preserve what is as time flows around it. Holding back a river distorts it out of all recognition. A lot of unhappiness comes from not recognizing and accepting change for what it is. When you do, you can move through transitions with less difficulty. In the words of the eminent philosopher Sherman T Potter, "If you're not where you are, you're noplace." Impermanence is one of the essential properties of existence, Webs. Relationships can be long-lasting but they do change, and necessarily so because their manifestation is embedded in time, place, and circumstance and those things change. Don’t confuse the manifestation with the thing itself.

We will miss you, and hope you will “stay in touch” but it is a mistake to try to preserve what is as time flows around it. Holding back a river distorts it out of all recognition. A lot of unhappiness comes from not recognizing and accepting change for what it is. When you do, you can move through transitions with less difficulty.

In the words of the eminent philosopher Sherman T Potter, “If you’re not where you are, you’re noplace.”

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