Damn You, Transitions!!!

A journey toward a particular goal or destination often requires a season of going through a few things: valleys, ravines, changes, and challenges. Therefore, it is important for us to know and to understand on a deeply intimate level, that our enterprises will require endurance. No state of being ever lasts forever. Transitions occur whether we are ready for them or not! As a matter of fact, transitions are so rude that they never ask us for permission nor do they bother to phone in their reservations in advance. They simply show up much like furniture deliverers that ring your doorbell are overly eager to off load their merchandise long before you’ve had the chance to get rid of the old furniture. And there you are, holding a big juicy, succulent piece of fruit that you soon discover is way too green to be eaten or enjoyed. Damnit! Transitions are the wolves lurking in the underbrush of your woods. They are the alligators floating just below the surface of your waters and you are the thirsty deer simply trying to enjoy a cool sip of wilderness water oblivious to the cost of that drink. Transitions are the separations and the divorces that you were convinced only happened to unsuspecting neighbors. Transitions are the heart attacks and the strokes that you thought were reserved for your relatives in the generations before yours. You come to find out that transitions are shape shifting little bastards that sometimes take the form of pink slips, emails, last paychecks, phones calls and other elements of communication. But wait! There’s more! Transitions are the besties to bad news. They accompany the news of a parent’s illness or even death. And they are stealthy little buggers, too. They don’t wave flags, have warning signs, a throat clear, a sneeze or a cough. They appear and you are often left wondering how, why or from where did they come? One thing iscertain, two things are sure: with wisdom we could deal with them from a preventative standpoint or from a recovery standpoint. Wharever end of the euquation one chooses to focus, a life coach could be one of your very best allies.