Transitions are Difficult

Transitions are difficult.  If you have worked with me, you have heard me say that more times than you care to remember.  Whenever something wasn't going perfectly, it seemed people would look to me for an explanation and all I had was "transitions are difficult."  It wasn't a cop out.  It was wisdom.  Transitions are difficult.  Even happy transitions.  Getting a new job.  Moving into a new house.  Watching your child launch into their own world.  Retiring.  Starting school - at any age.  Going from dad's house to mom's house.  Getting a new car is great, and it is usually better, but it takes time to adjust to the new features and just the way it feels.  The list is endless.  When we are children, transitions are very difficult because we have little life experience so we don't know what to expect.  As we age, our world becomes more narrow and we become more rigid, transitions become very difficult.  Loss of independence.  Changes at work.  All transitions.  They are all difficult and don't happen flawlessly.

Yes, despite that transitions are difficult, they are about the only thing we can count on in this world.  Change is constant.  We can depend on that.  Yet, transitions are difficult.  Maybe we need to look at Mother Nature for inspiration.  Never mind the damage that we humans are doing to the Earth, just look at the seasons.  Mother Nature transitions atleast four times a year.  If you are lucky enough to live in Manitoba, you can sometimes experience three seasons in one day.  If you just look at the transition, you can see difficulty.  Spring brings rain and flooding and exposes all the dirt hiding under the snow.  Summer brings heat and having to change our wardrobes and requires us to do yard work.  Fall brings a damp cold and a whole bunch of things withering away to nothing.  Winter brings cold and snow and challenges.  If you look past the transitions, you see beauty, you see potential, you see a world class art exhibit everywhere you look.

I experience a transition at the end of February.  An insignificant transition, really, in the scheme of things, but, it was a transition and it was difficult.  Google + made the decision to no longer support Blogger as a platform.  I was looking at all the negatives.  I wouldn't get as many views, I wouldn't be followed in as many countries, etc, etc.  Frankly, I wanted to stop blogging. It seemed like a difficult and unfair transition. 

Well, a little crisis of self-actualization is a good thing every now and then.  It got me to focus on what I am really blogging for and about.  It is about me.  It is my forum to promote my ideas.  It is me scattering a seed and seeing what grows.  It has affected my readership slightly.  It has reduced the amount of trolls and people who don't want me to succeed having access to my blog.  Bwahaha.  People can still access my blog through my social media and on the blogger platform.  The best thing about that is that you have to have your own blog on blogger to be able to read my blog on that platform.  So, this week for example, I have still been viewed in Canada, United States, Germany, India, United Arab Emirates, France, Ireland, United Kingdom, Portugal, and France.  That is just this week.  I still have a world audience.  Also, it turns out that March was my most profitable month yet. 

Transitions are difficult.  Change is hard, but it is also exciting.  And inevitable.  Change will happen.  Might as well embrace it.  Keep scattering those seeds.  Who knows what will grow.