As I have indicated before, things in my life are changing. I am preparing to move. I am preparing to lose my dog, my companion for 14 years. My professional interests are changing. I am transitioning into a life of unity with a significant other. My relationships with my children are transitioning as one inches toward adulthood and the other grapples with adolescence.
I wonder though, when is life not in transition? I've held this idea that life occurs in discreet segments of plateaus followed by abrupt changes but as I write this, I feel this idea is changing. Perhaps we are in a constant state of transition which at times is so slow that we cannot see it. As the external landscape of my life transitions, so is the internal. My thinking, my beliefs, my views of myself, of the world and my place in it is also in transition.
What is this correlation between the external and internal transitions? Is there one? Certainly changing life circumstances can occur without internal change, at least I believe that I have had that experience though I could be wrong. I do know from my own experience, however, that internal changes allow me to experience my changing circumstances in a new way. Yes. There is a link between changes in my thinking and changes in how I experience the world. I suppose this is why that while I am moving through changing life circumstances, I feel relatively unperturbed and on the whole, at ease. I feel this way because of changes in my internal landscape. Today I am grateful for the process of internal change.
