Benjamin Franklin said “nothing is certain but death and taxes”. I’m not sure I agree with that statement anymore. Death is nothing more than leaving the mortal body to return to the immortal soul. A transition. Taxes are pretty much illegal but that’s a story for another day. I’ve drawn my own conclusions and decided that the one sure thing in this life is change. One day you’re going along just fine thinking how wonderful life is, then, well, we all know how the story goes. All of a sudden it isn’t fine. Something happens, usually multiple things happen, you know – when it rains it pours. Sometimes the things that happen are life changing. Soul changing, like 9/11. Like death. Like a new love. Like the birth of a child or the death of a marriage. When the change is a turning point in life, you have to recalibrate, rethink what your life is now. It can be a purposeful pondering or it can be a quiet river running under what appears to be normal. But the recalibration will happen whether you realize it or not. Your mind has to work through the what now. There has to be a realization and acceptance and determination for how your life will be affected because of the change. Sometimes the transition is so smooth you don’t consciously realize it until weeks or months later. Sometimes the transition is so earth-shattering you don’t know how you’ll make it until weeks or months later. But this is life, and it goes on, sometimes smoothly and sometimes not, until the next change happens. Then it’s recalibration time all over again.