2 posts tagged “change”

I recently had a chance to go back in time.

Well, it was more in the historical sense, rather than physically undertaking time-travel. I was able to use the Wayback Machine's nifty little web-archiving service to peek at a few webpages as they had been. If you've not heard about this before, there is an automatic 'spider' that trawls through the internet saving pages it finds to its own archive. I think the web was a whole lot smaller back then.

I first started blogging way back in 2003 when I was living in Australia. I found a really useful blogging site called Upsaid, and it was a great tool because it dealt with all the setting up of layouts and webpages, so that I could concentrate on jotting down my errant thoughts. My blog was called 'Sleeping Among the Awake', a title chosen partly because I liked sleeping so much! Unfortunately Upsaid decided to charge for their services, and my blog was removed from their servers after I decided to move to a different site.

I was reading though a Wayback Machine snapshot of my blog taken back in April 2003. I had to smile at entries such as On-call: The Aftermath and some of the other posts because even though it was me writing those entries, it was a younger me. Me from 5 years ago. So different, so fresh, so witty! With the benefit of hindsight it's easy to think back nostalgically and remember how great the good old days were. It's only when I started to read posts that I had written then that I realise that some of those days weren't really all that good, and I think I moaned about them then as much as I moan about some of the days I have now!

But still... change is inevitable. We grow and develop. Maybe even (hopefully) evolve a little.

I think it's good to reflect back, and say that I'm where I am now because of this little incident or that thing happening. Some changes, though, I have found is totally and utterly inexplicable. I can't even begin to explain it. Take, for example, the fact that I suddenly developed a taste for bananas a few months ago. I mean before this point I didn't even like bananas, so why the sudden change? I really don't know, but at least going bananas means I'm getting enough potassium!

But then there's another change that I've noticed in myself. It's probably an improvement, but I can never really tell. I think that I'm now more happy with not knowing why about everything. I still have heaps of curiosity, but I can also just accept some things as what they are.

I wonder sometimes what the next change will be and where it'll lead me? I don't know for sure - but it's sure going to be interesting finding out! ;)

Change is the universal constant.

Or is it?

Depends on your definition!

Spare some change? :)