The Force of Change

I'm turning 24 this August. I'll be half done with my Master's degree. I'll be over a year out of undergrad. Friends are getting married all over the place. People are gettin' their jobs on. Sometimes I find myself wishing it all wasn't happening so fast!

I've known good change
and I've known bad change.
I've known penny change
and I've known paramount change.
At times I've loved it
and at other times I've despised it.
What I know now is that...
change never changes.

So many of us spend our lives
trying to get a life of our own.
We go new places,
meet new people;
these become the things we love.
When things are done here
we move on along,
never forgetting yet always moving on.

A new cycle of life begins once again,
the old one left to memory.
We cope with these moves saying,
"Change is inevitable."
But why? Why must it be inevitable?

Why can't change be changed?
Why must we move?
Why must we search?
Why must we grow up?
Why must the ones we love...
our family, our friends, ourselves...
Why must we often depart?

I guess the answer is easy for some;
For this is how the ball bounces.
For everything happens for a reason.
For we all have a time that we must go.

For all those who cling to those moments
that they wish never to let go...

Written by. Holly H.