Spare Change

It's a damn hot day today, and the heat is almost unbearable. I haven't seen a day like this in Chicago in many a month, and I can safely say I'm happy for the change, despite the heat. I don't boast complaints, but I can assume not everyone enjoys the blistering hot sunlight beating down on us, though I guess we just have to appreciate it as change.

I rode my bike a few miles the other day, circling around neighborhoods and the like, and examining the different lifestyles and the variation between them. I enjoy variation, and I realized that without, our world would be very bland, and we would not have the wonderful things that we have today. Naturally, we humans are accustom to one thing over a long period of time, but for the significant other, change is a welcome feeling. To everyone else, it may seem as a challenge to overcome (which is perfectly acceptable).

Change is symbolic of the living world holding the freedom to do what is desired and build on it, either by improving it or copying it. Living in a place where every little aspect of regular-day life is the same, forever, will surely be a drag. Picture in your mind heading down to work every single day, getting the same cup of coffee, talking to the same people with the same conversations, every day for the rest of your life. It doesn't sound fun, and we would die the same way we lived, which in some cases is a severely negative issue.

Really the whole thing that sparked my creative interest in the subject of change was a pile of loose coins someone left on a park bench.

I guess I have a tendency to think abstractly.