The Times the are a' changing - Bob Dylan 1963 (50 years) and they still are.

Football season is in full swing, with fantasy football being played everywhere these days. A fellow pool shooter on my team was watching the Green Bay and Chicago game. I asked him who he wanted to win. He said the wanted Green Bay to win by three points, but he wanted Chicago's running back to score 25 yards and he mentioned something about ball returns and special teams on both sides. In other words, the days are gone with just following just one team. Now you can root for individual players and multiple teams. My how times have changed. My dad worked in sales for the Rock Island Railroad for 27 years. The only reason he didn't make 30 was because the company closed its doors. I don't know many who stays with a company over 5 years these days. My how times have changed. When I was growing up, Volkswagen Beetle was the only foreign car around, today when I look around it's like the domestic cars are the ones in the minority. How times have changed. We have a man of color as our President and next year people can finally get affordable insurance if they choose no matter what their condition is or how long they have been uninsured. Yes "the times they are a' changing" - Bob Dylan 1963. It's been fifty years since he made that song  popular. Even back then, people were concerned about change.
Are times changing for the better or for the worse? That is something each of us will have to decide. The media and others will give you a number of reasons for each choice. If you choose worse, there are plenty of magazine articles and media personalities you can tune into to get your daily fill of terror and unfairness. If you believe things are changing for the good, you can also find people who believe as you do. So it comes down to one simple choice, when you act on and believe in that choice you will (by the Law of Attraction) create the world that you have chosen. What world do you want? You can be like the young branch that sways with the wind, knowing that you will survive and benefit working and accepting change. On the other hand, you can choose to be the stubborn old Oak who refuses to bend to the wind, but watch out because you may find yourself losing your limbs as they crack under the powerful winds of change. One night or actually early one morning in my college dorm I had fallen asleep with the television on.  I awoke at 5:30 AM to a cartoon being shown. There was this big hand and it pushed a rock off a cliff. The camera panned closer to the rock and there was a man clinging to the rock. He was frightened and held tightly to the rock. He was scared that if he let go then he might die, but the rock is going to eventually hit the bottom and he will die anyway. Isn't that a metaphor of life? The rock is your life and desperately holding on to the rock (routines) won't keep you any safer than trying new things. You don't have to play fantasy football, but you can do something as simple as changing your route when you go to work tomorrow. Maybe spend a few minutes enjoying the trees as they turn different colors, admiring the landscape or anything outside your car window as you travel to and fro from work. Change the station on your car radio to hear something different and do it with an open mind. Eat at a different restaurant. Try some foods you've never eaten. Don't get stuck holding onto your rock of security because it is only an illusion. You can't fight life so you might as well join it, because the times they are a' changing.

Nameste'

Barry Brown, Author
"A Journey to Balance - Making Sense of It All"