What's this? Change, again?

I've been hearing a lot lately that change is the only constant. Not only is this a paradox, but it's also very confusing. If it's constant, then it's not change is it huh?! But if change is the only constant, I don't want to carry shrapnel with my everytime I go shopping. It would be very heavy, and you know me; I'm not very fit, and I won't get to use that money clip Jonny and Alvin gave me for my 21st.

No, the change it talks about there isn't money, although if you checked your pay slip, you'll see that the tax cuts have taken effect. The change here is about change in general. It seems to be the main thing behind day to day things. Changing job positions, changing trains, changing tax thresholds, changing lenses, changing batteries, changing car oil, changing just about everything except my underwear (no, no, just kidding I change that too as regularly as the vikers [see the comments]).

But I keep thinking that it would be so good just to keep everything constant for that period of time so that you could just enjoy what you have for that moment. I mean imagine eating an ice cream that changes flavours all the time! You'd just never get the chance to get the flavour you want, and when it finally comes along, you'd wished you ordered more of that mango stuff.

But life isn't like ice cream. It's just a silly analogy I made up. Like seriously, do people taste like mangoes or strawberry? (Girls, you seriously gotta stop using those fruit smelling deodorants it freaks me out)

I guess it's a fact isn't it? Change will always occur. Change, change, change.

Now that I think about it, maybe that's why I like taking photos so much. It gives me some sort of mechanism to capture that specific moment before the change sets in - or doesn't set in if you get my drift.

Lorne - July 2002