Spare some change?

I attended a professional workshop that was about change, and how to adapt to it, and to evaluate the way we see change. The book "Who Moved My Cheese" was used to accelerate the breakdown of change. During this workshop, I came to realize my own adaptation to change, and how flexible I am to change. Then I got to thinking about the characters of the book, and how I quickly identified with one of the characters named "Sniff". Sniff is one of those mice that is constantly moving and looking for the next thing and is checking things out as things start to get stale or less interesting, Sniff starts to make a move and go searching for new things.

I have always been this way. Always constantly thinking of the next thing, the next big project, the next job, the next season, the next everything. I have always been eager to change, and always looking for something more than I have. While my discussion in my little subgroup talk, it got me thinking, "do I ever live in the present?" With always looking at change, do I ever really enjoy the moment? or am I constantly focused on the next thing and am I losing who and where I am at the moment?

I think I am having a hard time dealing with this. I always have thought that I was on the ball with change and I was great at moving to new cities and adapting to a new jobs came rather easily. There are definitely benefits in being adaptable, but are there really moments that I should be living to the fullest to? or can people ever completely live in the moment? I sometimes think that subconsciously everyone looks to the future. I also think that everyone looks into their past too. But, the present is such a pivotal point in such a long continuum, that I wonder how people can really focus on such a small point in a life. I guess it's like "light waves". People used to think that light waves were actual waves, but then some hot shot scientist really found out that light waves weren't really waves but many small dots that were connected that appeared like waves.

I am at my last semester at Salisbury University, and I am already looking at my new job. I think I need to focus on where I am at, and live in the present because I only get to live life once rather than living a step ahead of me, and never being able to see all my accomplishments right now. The idea of change only works with the assumptions that there was something to change from. Many good things happen from change, like a caterpillar turning to a butterfly or a tadpole to a frog. But I need to remember that caterpillar and the tadpole also are just as significant as the butterfly and the frog. It just is so much more fun to fly, or even hop around. I may need to learn how to crawl before I can walk, but I definitely need to live in the moment and celebrate who I am right now, and not who I want to be.