Accept it!

Just a few days before, I said to myself, "I desperately need a change!". After a few moments, I laughed and helplessly thought, "we are already facing (fighting as a matter of fact) a drastic change in our lives." That is COVID. Still, I wanted a change! How stupid, right? But it's a fact that we all need change.

"Change is the only constant" - Heraclitus. Every situation, expression, thing changes with time; Even though we can't see any path. We all have to face the change. The thing is how we face it. Let me tell you my simple way to handle the change. 

Consider, you are boating. First, you go upstream and then downstream. When will your efforts be less? Certainly when you go downstream! Same thing you have to do with change. Don't resist it. Simply flow with it. I just mean we should accept the change and move forward. Remember, everything in the world has two views. Same with change. We should learn to ascertain the positive side of change. Accept the change, understand the purpose behind it, connect it, and go with the stream.

Now why I'm advising you on all this? Actually, there are several benefits of accepting the change. We, teens, are very sensitive, that I think (in fact everyone knows). Too often, we expect certain things from life. And we get upset when we don't get them. For example, depression after a failure. So, to avoid that, we must try to embrace the change, and for that, we should reduce our expectations from life. In the beginning, you'll find it challenging...but not impossible! 

Everything changes. We should treasure these two words permanently in our brains. You will be no more fighting with life. You'll be happy and contented with all you have. Stop roaming in memories. When you eradicate old things, then only there'll be space for new things, right?

So at least try to embrace the change. Your life will change utterly! Treat a change like a refill of a pen. We use it. The words written by it stay forever in our books. After all, it needs to be thrown!

- Sruja Khatu