Washed Out Turtle Mobsters

Life has a startling tendency of passing us by. Change alters all things and sometimes it’s almost unbelievable that we’ve overcome so much. Recently, I’ve realized how much I’ve changed over the years, I’ve realized how much I’ve accomplished and how I’ve made it out of some of the bleakest moments in my life. It’s just always stricken me as comical when somebody says something like “You know what? You’ve changed.”



Obviously, to make a choice tends to lead to change. Maybe that’s a choice to eat better food or to hang out with a friend from grade school. To some, a decision that you make may make you feel uneasy at first or even make other people question your choices, but really all that matters is that you know a little more about yourself as a person, and if you don’t like what you’ve become, by all means change again. Without change where would we be, really? I’d hate to think that I’d still be playing in a sandbox with a Barbie at 18 years of age (or power ranger action figures or whatever it is you icky boys used to do as kids). But the BIG idea here is that though we may not enjoy change, or not be able to adjust well to change, itself, it’s something that we all must go through and accept. Change is an opportunity to shape who you are. When something changes will you rise to make the most out of the change, or will you run and hide from it?

 Along with change comes loss, whether that be loss of the old you, a friend, or innocence. To make a change is to risk. Choices affect every aspect of our lives. I could choose to stay home and do my homework, to go work as a volunteer at a soup kitchen, or go out and party with my friends. Each choice takes me into a different path that my life could go down. This is sometimes very overwhelming to the person. Within the last week, I met a girl who is probably one of the most indecisive people I have ever met (which I know is the pot calling the kettle black but still). It is good to analyze a decision before you go ahead and make it, however sometimes you can get too caught up in what might hypothetically happen that you never take a chance. My main thing here is a change is a chance. As scary as it may be sometimes you need to do something spontaneous, do something crazy, and do something that will possibly put a smile on your face. Don’t be afraid to fall, to dance, to scream, to open yourself to something that might alter your path but might make you into a stronger person. Even if you hit the ground at full force, that risk made you that much stronger if you are able to stand up, brush yourself off and continue making decisions that will help you get the most out of life.


"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive." --Mel Brooks