There is an old Heraclitus saying that you can never step into the same river twice. This wisdom exemplifies the flowing nature of reality. Either the river has changed, or you have. Now, we understand that the flow of the river will make the river change. In fact, if you have ever sat and watched a river, the small rapids, the undercurrent, the eddies, the slow flow or turbulence; it’s never the same. The river, like us, is in a constant state of change.

What about you? Are you in a constant state of change, or – like a broken record – are you turning on the track over and over. The choice is up to you, and it is certainly a choice. Like everything, we have the freedom to choose what we will take form our lives, that includes every minute of every hour of every day of our life. It is up to you to make the world you want to live in. A choice needs to be made, whether you make it or not. If you leave the choice unmade, it will be made by outside forces, and usually doesn’t turn out the way we want it to.

It seems, at times, that there is no choice to be made. Every day you wake up in the same bed, look at the same walls, the same kitchen in the same house; living with the same people doing the same things. It’s all the same – or is it? We are a complex individual living in a complex society with other complex individuals. When we learn that we are all part of a great whole, we start to realize that this universe we live in is inseparably connected at every level. When we start to learn about this connection, we start to see that the reality of the world, the only constant, is change.

If change is the only constant, and this exemplifies the flowing nature of reality, every breath we take, every moment we have, is a new and different moment. New in that it has never happened before, and will never happen again; different in that it has never been experienced by another at any other time in any other place.  We can look to our past and wish to take an eraser to a day or two on the calendar of our history. However, if we look at this life as the changing river it is, then we are meant to change with it – which is an encouraging thought!

Today is a new day—this moment is a new moment and one you have never lived, one you will never live again. You are a day older and the world is constantly evolving and changing, and hopefully, so are you. Hopefully you are never complete, never content. I hope we are all in a constant state of evolving.