Being At Peace With the Positive and Negative Changes That Life Brings

My photography work. I am currently building my side creative brand, with photography being one of the main components.

Aside from my goals to work in nonprofit management and/or government, I recently began building my creative brand as a photographer and blogger/writer. I have been partaking in this endeavor for almost three months now, and I can say that despite the struggles that will come my way during this process, I am at peace with this. I am at peace with the fact that I will probably not do the same thing career-wise a few years from now. Someone told me last week, "It is never too late to know what you want to do. You will need something to get started, but it will not be the end-all-be-all of what you will do in your life." This hit me hard. This also inspired me to go on with my dreams, no matter the struggles that may come my way.

I am a firm believer in signs, and God is giving me a sign that I am not going to be in nonprofit management and/or government fields for the long run. He is telling me to come to peace with the fact that change will always be a part of my life. Change is healthy. Change is needed! However, change can be uncomfortable and it can often be difficult to withstand that changes that one experiences in life. As a college student, I can confer with this sentiment, because I struggled with the transition from being raised in a sheltered home to being out in the open and on my own. 

Despite this, I managed (and still managing) to be at peace with myself in the sense that suffering in life is inevitable. I am not saying that our lives will be full of misery and pain, I am saying that suffering - whether big or small - will happen to us. The peace that factors into this is that when we acknowledge and accept that there will be suffering in our lives, the less anxiety we are likely to feel. Life is NOT black-and-white, and neither is the changes that happen to us. NOTHING is permanent, because our existence is not permanent. Even our joys and pains are not permanent. Therefore, we must gain a better understanding of the impermanence of our being, and open ourselves up to the notions of what we do in this life will not necessarily carry on after we pass away (if you happen to believe in the concepts of the afterlife and the eternal life of one's soul). 

Above all, I am at peace with what will happen to me in life. I hope that whoever reads this finds some kind of peace within themselves, too. I know that things can be strenuous for us all at times, but the key thing is how we react to our situations. Your reactions and attitude towards your struggles and even your victories often show who you are as a person. On a closing note, I will requote what someone told me from earlier: "It is never too late to know what you want to do. You will need something to get started, but it will not be the end-all-be-all of what you will do in your life." Until next time, keep prospering!

Song of the Day, "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin