Nicola Griffith posted: " One of the things about life in general, and life with a neurodegenerative disease like MS in particular, is having to deal with constant change, most of it not for the better. I get tired of change—but I also know that for all living things change is a " Nicola Griffith
One of the things about life in general, and life with a neurodegenerative disease like MS in particular, is having to deal with constant change, most of it not for the better. I get tired of change—but I also know that for all living things change is a constant factor.1
Change always—every single time—takes some getting used to. Some is relatively easy, and warrants a shrug and the Zen attitude: "Change Is." Some merits the furious resistance summed up very nicely2 as "Change is, of course, to be deplored."
Both of those saying are constant refrains in our household. So you say say I exist between Zen and Thunderbirds: Change is... and Change is, of course, to be deplored. Except, huh, now that, in the course of finding this clip, I've watched it for the first time in decades, it turns out Kelley and I got it wrong. What they actually say is, "One does, of course, deplore change." Which is not nearly as nifty. So I'll stick with my original.
Or maybe I'll resort to the Sopranos, "Well, fuck the fucking new!"
So how do you regard change? Zen, Thunderbirds, or Sopranos?
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1 Inanimate things, too: rock erodes, steel corrodes, the sun implodes
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