Everything is always passing by.
Nothing is permanent.
We are in a constant state of change. Constant.
I may seem like me. To you.
At parties, someone might slap me on the back, raise a drink to the others standing in that circle, and say, “Oh Polly? Heck, I’ve known Polly for years.”
But that isn’t all the way true.
The me of today must be slightly different from the me of yesterday. Things have happened since yesterday. All sorts of things. Not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I am different in every moment. Be it ever so slightly. But there it is.
I know for sure — positively sure — that the me of forty-three years ago is quite different from the me on this day. I would say I’m almost completely different, and to be honest, I have little memory of that “me.”
The me of tomorrow is unknown. Maybe not completely, but I will surely change. Me. You. Rearranging. Reconstructing. Readjusting. And every other thing in this Universe, by the moment. All changing.
Yesterday changed me. Today will too.
The question is, how?
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Pass the salt?
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
— Ronald Reagan
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Ancient advice.
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
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Simple wisdom.
“All things are only transitory.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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