Without change, no growth can come. Flowers wouldn’t spring from the branch, no seeds, no new plants. If we kept the same opinions, always, we wouldn’t learn, grow, become better people.
Growth unchecked, coming from all directions, that is cancerous, lumps and bumps unwanted, unneeded. But considered growth, the way Nature changes things from season to season, this is how we people go best too.
To bring this thought to literature, a novel has characters, each with their own thing, to bring to the novel. The novel will begin with characters in one stage of being, and during the course of the narrative, the characters will learn, grow, and change, some for the better, some not, as the author, or the story, dictates …
Sometimes, yes, the story can take over, and the writer follows where the story takes them. If this seems fanciful to you, take heed, it is a true thing. The writer has ideas, but as they write, new ideas emerge, and so the original thoughts the writer had have to change too, to make sense of the story.
We are all born, we grow, we live and (hopefully) we learn. And then we will die. It is hoped a person has lived a life with a good many changes for the better, and made friends with persons of note, and done their own things of note too, and so can in some way defy death, and live on in the memories of others, and perhaps in the history books …
If you are not able to do that, in any way, I suspect you may have been ignoring the challenges that change can bring, you silly person – those challenges can bring some of the most important changes possible in life!
Do you embrace change, or hide from it? I love challenges, and the changes they can bring!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 