Winter of Change

Read this today on a co bloggers website - An Excerpt from Calvin and Hobbes:
"Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isnt going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon.
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?" (- Calvin, about to become aware of the concept of winter...)

I have my first pair of GAP jeans . Long and Lean . Comfort wear ..scruffy at the cuffs ..torn ..ripped and well worn . I hold onto them . Wear them like a thief of weekends at home .Memoirs of an era gone by , Friends lost and found ..trying to recreate the magic of being young , impressionable and comfortable . When it seemed like things were as good as it could get and nothing was ever going to be different .

Change . Ironically the only thing thats constant in life . Winter is the season I've always associated with change in my life . I guess watching the fall leaves flutter away as a cold October makes its way to an even colder December , I grow accustomed to it and get prepared for things to get topsy turvy .
Uncannily enough - less than 3 weeks left in Delhi , bang in the middle of spring theres no sign of the sun . Its been cloudy , grey and gloomy since last week . I think its the heavens way of telling me ...cry all you might ..Life is about to change ..meanwhile heres some rain to wipe your tears away .

I guess all I can do is hang in there . And try to not grip onto the present so tightly that I cant embrace the new people , new places , new challenges and new smiles that I'm rushing towards.
Like someone once said - Leaves fall every year and new ones grow in their place.
Beneath every changing surface lies an unchanging pattern .
In all the changing surfaces of mu life - I will be strengthened .
Amen.