changes <\/a>or goodbyes.<\/p>\nIn the days ahead, I\u2019m going to have to say goodbye to a number of people I care about, from co-workers\u00a0to neighbors.<\/p>\n
No, I\u2019m not going anywhere, they are. I\u2019m happy for them, but\u00a0sad for me.<\/p>\n
Change always unsettles me, it challenges my stability. It makes me feel insecure. Especially when I am unaware of what\u2019s to come, the unknown.<\/p>\n
There are times when we are forced to say goodbye to people we care about, whether it is for our own\u00a0mental\/emotional\u00a0health\u00a0or the\u00a0inevitable,\u00a0death.<\/p>\n
Those final goodbyes are the hardest.<\/p>\n
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2013 has been riddled with change and goodbyes. I\u2019m trying hard to cope, but deep down, I am preoccupied with it all and what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n
I realize we have no control over what the future holds, we only have today, the moment. But in times like this, I seem to allow the moment to be robbed\u00a0by\u00a0worry and anxiety.<\/p>\n
I know this is something I personally struggle with.<\/p>\n
When something is good, I don\u2019t want it to change. I want it to stay the same forever.<\/p>\n
There are some that say change is good. I wish I had that perspective. I would get up every morning embracing the day without fear or reservation.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, that\u2019s not how I get up every day. I get up\u00a0to a\u00a0torrent of worry. This is my reality, my personal nightmare. With so much change and upheavel, it\u2019s really challenging me in ways I didn\u2019t think possible.<\/p>\n
Perhaps in the end, it will all be for the best. Hopefully this upheaval of change will stretch my character and hopefully, my faith. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n
How do you handle changes or saying goodbye? Is this something you struggle with too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you find it hard to say goodbye? I do. Lately, there are so many changes happening, and with those changes, goodbyes. The changes are occurring on my job and where I live. I\u2019m having to say goodbye to people I have known for a long while. I\u2019m not good with changes or goodbyes. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,7,90],"tags":[490,513,541,469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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