by Mark Mahon

Created on: July 19, 2009   Last Updated: August 17, 2009

When was your life different than today? You are allowed to smile and frown as you drift backward throughout your memory to realise that you have always existed differently than today. As you reflect, you may remember telling anyone who would listen that you are now three and a half years old. Maybe, Pete or Jane just pipped you in the running races that were really designed to let some parents pretend that their child was better. It was sometimes awkward in the showers after sport to discover that the guy with the deep voice also had hair where you did not. The quiet person who sat three rows away always achieved exam results marginally better than yours, except on that day . . .

Life moved on. Have you noticed the theme? Nothing is forever. Change is inevitable. And the best part? You do not know what will happen next. It is quite possible that the economy is a game. Some lucky individuals sometimes find themselves in a position where they think that they are making decisions that enhance the company, and "reluctantly having to let you go" is something that empowered them until someone was reluctant toward them. Nothing changes how proud you were to be three and a half.

Throughout the world, so many people are feeling just like you are, apparently due to the global recession. Despite how solidly you would love to have your plan of the future laid out, maybe we are just an element of the currents of life flowing in patterns that cannot be foreseen. What we do know is that two years from now, you will reflect back and wonder in awe how you possibly came to be in the situation that you are in now. Change just happened in a manner that you did not anticipate.

So how do you struggle through these difficult times while waiting for your change? Some people just have a natural ability to listen to how you are feeling now. Some of those people have had their life current flow toward a place where they can listen to and maybe even feel what you are struggling with now. If you can find one of those special helpers to listen to how hard it seems for you, you may actually find that you have that feeling of an arm around your shoulder, holding you in support as your change rushes toward you. Life comes with good and bad. If you can find someone with that sparkling, fluorescent pen that highlights your good . . . It just may help.

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