October 16, 2007

  • Change - Not Good

    Change is not good.  They have changed things here where I write.  They removed my favorite high top table and the remaining high top is too far from the outlet, and the chairs on the lower tables aren’t the same. 

     

    I don’t consider it ideal to work in a coffee shop.  I’d prefer to have an office where I can be alone, a space that’s mine.  Particularly when I first get to a new place, it feels very distracting, and makes me nervous to be out in the open among people I don’t know.  But over time, it begins to feel comfortable.  I become familiar with the people who work there, without having to be their best friends.  I recognize the regulars.  I get into a routine that I come to expect and it becomes natural.  It feels like a neighborhood I’m a part of.  It starts to feel like a home (and it is, in fact, not too far from my home).

     

    And then they go and remove my favorite seat.  It took me awhile to settle in on that seat.  I tried others.  So, change is not good, but dealing with change until the change is the thing you don’t want to change anymore is good, I guess. 

     

    So, dealing with Change - good.  Change itself - only inevitable.