"Things change. They always do, it's one of the things of nature. Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort."
Robert Kincaid
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
Change. Breaking the routine. Living like there is no tomorrow. Embrace the moment, seek the un-obvious and eventually let life happen. I reflect on change as a comfort. Sometimes we live in a world of fear. Emotional fear to say the least. When we step outside the fear and look back through that door that we call our guard, we tend to let the guard down and give it a second chance.
Change is uncomfortable; life is sometimes uncomfortable.
When you realize that the greatest gift you can give someone besides loving them is the adaptability to change, you are in a way giving someone the greatest freedom emotionally. I think about change and the negative connotation with the word. I think about how people had change and stepping outside their own normalcy.
Is change supposed to enact normalcy? I know that temporarily the change is a shock, it is full of uneasy tension and doubt; but, once the change is happening do we see it or do we realize something has happened after the fact?
In The Bridges of Madison County a woman's soul and heart goes through change. A life of what she always knew began to slowly differ than what was expected of her. She, married with children enacts a change critical to her children some years later as they discover their mother's secret and feel torn between what they knew and have grown to know.
The story takes us through a journal collection of four days in 1960 when a man, Robert (Clint Eastwood) stumbles upon Francesca's (Meryl Streep) farm in 1960. A change awaits, yet, unbeknown to either, their affair would be critical in knowing that life was about to change and their love would bring it back to that Roseman Bridge.
Are people allowed to experience love outside the norm? Why are people able to find change temporarily and ignore it, while living a life hiding from the change?
I think what we miss in the world of choices is that change is inevitable with wanting to be or become someone else. Have we given change such a protocol that we ignore that happenings are just a second nature? I empower growth and acknowledgment. I know change comes sometimes when we least expect it or when we have to make a different stroke in life.
Love though... how do you change love? How do you know when love has changed you?
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Thank you for reminding me of both that wonderful trip and this touching, beautiful book.
R
Thoth.. XOXOXO