The Sickness of Change

Burden by George Mann

In a large, old and darkened wood house there lived a man in charge. He was a man amongst men and quite particular. He claimed he had 4 children although no one ever saw them and that his parents lived with him. The house was empty. (He had a plan to kill everyone). He worked as a Service Manager in a large and spacious garage. He insisted that everything be handled in blue envelopes. Receipts, service bills, checks and memos were settled and stored in an envelope; the rule was "one per envelope." He was very careful, tidy and neat. During the shifting of the vehicles from the lot, mud splashed on one of the envelopes. Everyone was afraid of his outburst. efh


One morning they gave us a guinea pig. It came to the house in a cage. At midday, I opened the door of the cage. I returned home at nightfall and found the guinea pig just as I had left it: inside the cage, huddled against the bars, trembling with the fear of freedom. eduardo galeano

Do you see yourself? Are you one to hammer down a rule, a right, a method or are you shaking against the familiar, paralyzed and imprisoned inside it? 
 
 Change is a mark of existence. Clinging to some rule or place makes you sick from the fear of change and is an attempt to control the impossible. The burden born of change is the little deaths of letting go of what you embrace moment after moment after moment. 




Please read Chapter Four, if you are reading the book.