Change?

Dear you,

I actually wrote and completed this last night but it took me this long to convince myself that you needed to see this too.

Change is seeing a whole new beard in your brother’s face and feeling like you’re seeing a stranger until he shaves it off. Change is realizing you’re an adult and you can never go back to the child full of wonder and joy for all the things life has to offer. Change is realizing, you might like some of the things you hated in the past. Change is realizing Mangoes might not be a bad fruit after all. Change is new, change is constant.

I feel like I might have mentioned this before but I really. really do not like change. While I do not have a monotonous routine, I have crafted a lifestyle that perfect for me, a relaxing life on the regular. Think old garden cottage with a small library near an old country lane. Think Enid Blyton’s Flyaway Cottage or The Wishing Well.

Regardless of all the plans you and I set in place, life is unpredictable. Very much like change. The Ups aren’t constant and neither are the Downs. As humans, we just live and live and live until we have nothing else to give. (Except me though, because I’m an Alien and I’d probably float in space the rest of my life if I had the chance to :p )

But until then? Enjoy the little changes. You can’t find the specific bell peppers you need for a recipe? It’s okay, switch it up. A friend joins you on a walk you planned out, laugh, and enjoy it. It’s the little things in life that matters and we’ve got very little time to enjoy it, to live it. So while you can?

Live.

Live and enjoy the changes life brings to you regularly. Don’t worry, be happy when you can and cry when you want to. Go out with your friends or stay home if you want to. Apply for that job or run for that post.

Not all change is bad, sometimes, what you’re looking for has been stuck in you the whole time. Just check inside your Sòkòtò, not Sókótó.

Hey you! Let out your little light and live.

And if change is too hard for you to take in that moment, I’d hold your hand and walk with you all the way.

In the meantime, here’s a little something to listen to. It’s called Change

Until we meet again!

Your friend,

Iceyy.