the other side

I sat in the brown chair in my living room.

Abby sat next to the fireplace.

With glimmers of sadness and hope she said, “New is unsettling but it’s part of what makes us better.”

I said, “I think you just wrote my blog this week.”

New, change, different… all words for the things that bring both anxiety and hope.  Comfort and trial.  Sadness and opportunity.    

And that’s what change is, you sit in both, you feel all the sides.  

And on the other side of change is a better version of you.