When We Change, The World Change

Saint Joseph Institute of Technology - "Halibas, April" of Butuan City.

When We Change, The World Change, Many of us have gone through the crests and troughs of what life has to offer, and how often have we wished that what happened did not happen according to what we expected, or that what had happened should not happen again.

We may have experienced the death of a loved one, or the trauma of separation, or some other adversity of that have wrought pain and upheaval. We may have found ouvselves at a loss, looking for answers and perhaps, turning at the wrong curve-wine, women (or men) and song. Then we became trapped. Alone and lonely. We ask "Why?", "How come?", "What now we cry out for change?". "I don't want things to remain this way anymore. "People around me must change."And yet they don't. What then do we do? Where then do we go?

We just need to to take the simplest and shortest route-within. To journey within is sometimes odd and frighening, but only for a while. Just like going to an unfamiliar place alone and for the first time, the first step maybe accompanied by fear. We may tremble because we don't know what our new environment would be like.

In the sameway, the journey within can give us the jitters, or even tears, at first.

We just need a little kindness and patience with ourselves. We have learn to be "at home" with ourselves and then exploring deeper could undoubtedly be an exciting adventure.

The journey within is the road less travelled but one which can make us laugh and learn from our own foibles in Life. This is freedom-when we can smile and be happy with ourselves again.

Having taken a good look, we see things more clearly. We become more sensible and humble, accepting our own blunders and spiritual autism. We celebrate the freedom of Awakening! Life itself has an innate wisdom to teach us the lessons we need to learn.

Like a butterfly spreading its wings beyond the confines of its chrysalis, the journey within is taking a step away from the limits of our comfort zones and narrow spaces of our old ways of thinking. This, too is freedom-when we can break through the rigid walls of our own fears and negativity, often masked in ego.

Freedom enables us to see ourselves and to see the world around us with wonder. The expanse of beautiful possibilities opens up to us like mother's warm hug, lovingly assuring us that whatever has happened and is happenning is good and the best is yet to come.