Change, Change, Change!

I wrote the title of this blog to the tune of the song, "Chain, chain chain! Chain of fools". So if you did not read it to that tune, I kindly ask you to go back and re-sing the title. Now that the issue has been taken care of, I bring you to the really long-winded point of this blog. I sat down to write (because I am a writer now and writing is what I do) but I did not know the topic I was going to discuss. So I pulled up this website, then I went to twitter and twitter stalked, then still in the mood for stalking swung over to instagram, then landed on Facebook. And that my friends is where I was found the inspiration I needed to write this blog. Mark Zuckerbluger (I don't know his actual know but that sounds close) kind of smacked me in the face with it. It was called Facebook movie! It inspired me to talk about (if you sang the title you should know) CHANGE!! That 5 letter word, (it's actually 6 letters) that I truly used to dread but after watching all these Facebook movies, I changed my opinion on change; you like that I did there, let me just say, PUN INTENDED!

            Okay so this video goes back to when you first got sucked into the dark, time consuming vortex that is social media and fast-forwards to present day. I got lost in this vortex in 2007! 2007 for me was seriously like a lifetime ago for me. I look at the post I made and the pictures I posted back in the day compared to this year. I look at who I was friends with and the type of person I considered myself and I realize I have changed. I use to think sharing all this personal stuff on the Internet was stupid, but then I got to see this video and realized that the world got to see the changes I have gone through. And hopefully they can see the journey I went on from being the most awesome person ever to be even awesomer (yes, it is a word! If twerk is a word, awesomer can be a word!) Now let me take a step back and tell you about my long struggle with the word change.

            Have any of you ever watched Boy Meets World? (If you haven’t then I kindly ask you to step away from the computer, and go watch every season. THEN AND ONLY THEN will you be allowed to read this blog because I do not want any weirdoes who haven’t watched Boy Meets World reading this blog!) Well there is one episode where Cory has a mental breakdown because everything is changing. That is how I use to feel. If my mom would bring home a flavor of Cheez-its that was not the original, I would freak out because that was a change! Like how dare she insult the original cheez-its and buy the changed version! You may be thinking that the Cheez-its show the larger picture, but no! I really like the original flavor daggum it! No but seriously, if something as small as a Cheez-it flavor could freak me out then I was in for a world of breakdowns in my life. As I look back at the video, I see all these things that have changed in my life. Changes I did not realize until they were over!

            As I continue to grow up, I realize things are constantly going to change. Food I thought I would hate forever, I have grown to love (like some of the non-original flavored Cheez-its I have truly grown to dig). I have lost friends I did not think I would, but found new friends to take their place. As you change, you will have friends that will embrace you for that and you will also have friends that will say PEACE! I have realized that if I do lose these friends, it means my change was for the better because those people sucked anyways. I have changed in that I have quit worrying so much about what other people think and started to put more value in my own thoughts and myself more. I have changed in the fact I am more confident than ever in myself. I do not need the validation of others to decide my life. I do not need others to tell me I am awesome because I know it to be true (although hearing it now and then would be nice) I have CHANGED! My friends have CHANGED! MY LIFE HAS CHANGED!! I will not longer cower in the corner at the thought of change. I will no longer try to fight change. I will no longer be scared to say the word change. I will embrace it. I will give it a nice warm hug because I know that in the end, CHANGE IS GOOD! Nothing can stay the same forever; if it did life would be so boring and if there is one thing I hate it is being bored! I think this is the way life was intended, to be able to look back in 5 years and say, “WOW, I sure am glad my style has changed! And man am I glad I am no longer friends with that basket case” It is just the way it is, so I am jumping on the change train and moving along with my life.