My mind continues to reflect on the thought of change these days. It’s one thing that we humans are always faced with, but usually dislike intensely. And yet it is a part of life that we will always face, there’s really no way to escape it.
I’ve hi-lighten my most favorite ones with “**“:
**If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
**When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
**Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher
**If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.
**When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
**The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril. ~Laurens van der Post
Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864
Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake
**You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust
**Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
This is my most favorite one! Imagine that if the caterpillar refused to change and stayed inside it’s cocoon, we’d never have butterflies! So to if you refuse to change and hang onto the old ways you might never realize the potential that you’ve missed, might never become that beautiful butterfly that was locked inside you all along just waiting to get out!
So in summation I’d say it’s perfectly normal to be afraid of change and the unknown, but don’t let it stop you from doing it because it’s the only way you’ll grow:
Come to the edge, she said.
No, we can’t, we’re afraid.
Come to the edge, she said.
No we can’t, we’ll fall.
Come to the edge, she said.
And they came.
And she pushed them.
And they flew……………………..
Guillaume Apollinaire 
Lizzy
© EMO 3/12
Knowledge is Power
When I was diagnosed, close to 11 years ago, I was told “you are diabetic”, given a prescription for some medication, and told to wait for a nurse to come in and give me an insulin shot. When I picked up the prescription I was given a 10-page booklet telling me “All About How to Mange Diabetes”, and sent on my way. That was the extent of my “education”. 
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Thanks Bendita.
Lizzy