Breathe in.  Breathe out.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.

Sometimes, when I get myself all worked up about something…. and in a tizzy, I need to remember to Breathe in.  Breathe out.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.

Yes, it is true.  I know the tizzy very well.

You know how it all plays out.  Something sticks in your craw.  And then comes the  state of nervous excitement or agitation… mixed in with a bit of a frenzy, and fret.  Mostly for me…it comes in the form of agitation.

Like…. when I hear the proverbial “It is what it is.”  (I will beat this dead horse… I will.  With a stick.)

Scientifically speaking, this axiom….“It is what it is.”…..  is mostly untrue.  In the moment… in the singular second… everything is in some portion of existence.  But in the next millisecond, it changes somehow.  Or even faster than that.

All of this universe is in a constant state of change.  The primary law of this physical-material system is change. There is no such thing as a static state. If something doesn’t vibrate, it doesn’t exist. Nothing ever stays the same.  Everything evolves or degenerates.  (Most days, I feel like I am in a state of degeneration… but I digress.)

Soooooo….  why are my undies all bunched up?  Well,  I heard a guy being interviewed on the news this morning.

The topic was controversial.  But the gentleman (Dippy Dan, I like to call him)  stated that the Supreme Court should rule a certain way on a current issue …. because that “something” should remain the same.  His argument….. “because it has always been this way.”

Now. That’s a very interesting opinion.  If something has ALWAYS been a certain way…. we should leave it that way.  Why?   BECAUSE that is how it has always been.

There you have it.  Cut and dry.  Right down to it.

But wait.  Not so very long ago…. the world was flat.  There was no such thing as electricity.  Or anesthesia.    Black people could not sit at a lunch counter where white people sat.  And women could not vote.  ALL of those things… had ALWAYS been that way.  Start dropping breadcrumbs… because now we are going to follow along the fuzzy logic trail.  You see, according to Dippy Dan, those thing MUST not change, they CANNOT change.  Because they have always been that way.

Yes….. A little fuzzy to me.  Like a dirty bellybutton.

There is a life force energy in every atom and in every cell.  Period.
Energy must constantly flow.  Period.
It then follows that things must change in order accommodate this process.  Period.

Everything evolves from one point to the next, and each point must be experienced to get to the next.  Nothing, really, stays the same.

I’ve said it a hundred times here at least.  I know.
But there.  I’ve said it again.

This Tizzy of mine is ongoing.  In a constant change.  Besides breathing in, breathing out.
But I am hoping for a change.  In more ways than one. In more hearts than I ever dreamed possible…. I am hoping for a change.

Bonus Audio Clip…..

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.  —  Benjamin Franklin

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 People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.  —  Plato