Change is Constant

Day 76

05 August 2009

Have you ever noticed that nothing ever stays quite the same?

That there is always change in everything you see, and everything you do?

Even if it is a tiny, almost imperceptible thing, there is something different about today, that wasn't there yesterday.

This is something I am very aware of whenever I take a photograph. When I release the shutter, it is capturing a fragment of time. Then in a moment, something is different. The picture has changed.

Whilst we were sitting at Peveril Point today, I was considering the concept of change as I watched the water lapping on the shoreline. The tides rise and fall daily, but even they are not a constant, as the times of high and low tide gain an hour each day.

Even these pebbles are subjected to constant change due to the tides shifting the position or turning them over. Everything around us will change, whether we are aware of it, or not, whether we can control it, or not.

One big change on the horizon is our schooling system. This evening I went to a meeting to discuss the future of secondary education in Swanage. The room was full of people who were keen to have a positive, forward-thinking change to the way in which our children will be educated. Each person there knew that there was nothing we could do to stop the changes that lie ahead; but we can try to make sure that we benefit from that change rather than fight against it.
After all, the only constant in life is change.