the secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new.

socrates

Just when the weather changes, as the temperature drops, so can our mood. Swung by science, society or the self, its hard to pinpoint when happiness will swap out for sorrow, when the pain in your bones will ache, where youth left you for something different, but it will. Best to bear in mind that it won’t last forever, as sure as the sun keeps rising our moods will keep changing, our place in this world and our conditions surrounding it will alter. We are part of the system around us, so as that changes, so do we. 

So no matter who you are, what you have, where your mind space might be,  dips will come. Bad things happen, markets drop, sickness comes and the silver lining, if there is any, is those things will stop. Another way to look at it is that without darkness, brightness is hard to find. Without the work, the pain, then how can one understand pleasure, know brightness? There is no one-sided mountains, the trick to this game is to enjoy the inverse. Find a way to lean into the dark, to not let anxiety, fear or frustration fester. It comes into our lives, it will also leave. Whether or not any of this is bad news is hard to say. Look around and observe the problems that are there, fix them or leave them, or ignore them.

It is hard to figure out if we have a choice in any of these matters. If we can avoid the pitfalls of weather, of wearing down with age, of waking up on the wrong side of the bed. When I close my eyes, my thoughts bubble, my mood exist and any aches or pains come and go on their own. A slight headache both in life and literally tend to surface and subside, a treasure I once kept loses its luster and then I find myself among other friends, in another space in another time. I can barely recognize my surroundings, something that was once so familiar to me at one point in my life seems very far today, change snowballing with a cluster of other problems, prizes and places.