Life's Simplest Choice: Change

Everyday things change, but nothing stays the same. Life is change.
This is how we know we're alive. When things stop changing, we're dead.
To some this is a scary concept, that the only thing to be counted on
is change. It is the only constant in our world. Nothing else is
absolute or definite. Nothing. Not love, not ideas, not laws and not
even ourselves. To some this is unsetteling, to others it is what makes
life worth living.

What would life be without change? Would it not be the same thing over
and over again? Wouldn't we loose the ability to hope, get excited and
look forward to the future? Life would be boring, there would be no
reason to live because there would be nothing to live for. Days would
run into eachother and years would pass by without our noticing.
Nothing would be set apart from anything else. There would be no
sensations, no emotion. There would be no joy, no pain. There would be
nothing. Life would be a meaningless void into which everyone
fell.

Our enviornment is in a continual state of flux. Protons jump from atom
to atom and molecules bounce all over. Dust particles float around in
the air while bacteria travel all over our bodies. The weather changes,
the barometric pressure changes. A bird stops singing and our acustic
perceptions change. The sun comes out and our visual opinion is
different. There is no limit to the things going on in our enviornment,
most of which we lack the abilities to even detect. The enviornment
changes just as we breathe, automatically and with neccesity. When we
stop breathing we die, when the enviornment stops changing it dies.
When the enviornment dies, so does everything else. Take comfort in
change, it sustains life.

Nothing stays the same, not on the outside and not on the inside. We
change our minds every second. We jump from one thought to another
without seconds in between. The enzymes digesting the food in our
stomachs change and the bacteria growing in our noses is never the
same. Our bodies change tempature and fat cells multiply and decrease.
Cuts bleed and then heal, leaving the skin different forever after.
Minds process information as sensory information is detected, drawing
an infinite number of varying conclusions. We were created for change.
Evolution instilled in us the capabilty to change rapidly and to
comprehend change in the things around us. Change is the building block
of life. Without it, life never would have been possible at all. How
else can tadpoles become fish and monkeys become homosapiens other than
through multiple series of changes?

Some of life's changes can be predictable. Babies change into children
and then adolesents and then teenagers and then adults who have babies
themselves. This is a series of changes which facilitate life and is
present in humans, dogs, turtles etc. When the sun goes down the moon
comes up. When the moon leaves the sun comes back. These are changes
but they are quite predicatable. Change itself varies, sometimes it's
easily forseen and sometimes in a surprise. Theres a balance in this
somewhere, a comfort for those discomforted by change.

To be discomforted by change is the greatest atrocity of the world. It
is a useless expenditure of energy. It's self defeating, defiant
against nature and utterly futile. There is one logic alone that can
explain why one would oppose change: that they do no want to live.
Changing is living and remaining the same is death. Every second is a
choice, change and live or stop changing and die. Life can be this
simple if we let it be.