"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

-Jim Rohn

Change has been one of the things I hated doing. I think I hate it even more today. I have had to change a lot of things in my 21 years of life. The thought of changing stresses me out. I like stability and knowing what's going to happen. But change is a part of life. If nothing changed in our lives, we wouldn't grow.

Butterflies are the embodiment of change. A caterpillar undergoes a huge change when it is in it's cocoon. It turns into a butterfly.

I moved around a lot, not staying in one place very long. Changing schools made it very hard for me to make friends. And the hardest part was keeping the friends that I made when I moved again. Also I always hated packing my things up, then having to unpack them. It was like a pattern. Pack, move, make new friends, stay a little bit, then it starts all over with moving again.

Being older now, change is still hard. I don't even like to change grocery stores. Like yesterday, I went to Kroger for the first time after going to Walmart every Friday or Saturday for the last month or so. I know grocery stores aren't a big deal, but after changing so much about my life, the little things bother me a lot.

I also know that I'm not done changing my life. I am not ashamed of how I grew up. I just remember that there were times that I needed things and my mom didn't have the money for those certain things. And I remember telling myself that I was going to change that. That I wouldn't be told no again. If I needed it, I would be able to get it.

I want to change my life for the better. It can only get better from here on out. I believe that one day I won't have to change anything. That there will be a day where I will not worry about moving or starting over somewhere else. I will not have to stress over changing.

Think of change as a temporary fix to get to the permanent fix in life. Embrace change instead of cringing away from it. The more we take on change the more we can accept it and be better with implementing it. I feel that if we do this, then we can make our lives easier. Don't be afraid of change! Be a butterfly!