Life is change and change can be very disorienting, even frightening. How well your life goes can often depend on how well you handle that change. How well you predict it, when that's possible, prepare yourself for it, accept it when it comes, adapt to it, and so forth.
Some can not handle change. The Taliban is afraid of change. bin Laden was afraid of change. The entire Middle East is trembling right now, half way out on the high wire act that change of that magnitude always becomes.
Here in the United States many are now living in fear of change. Our place in the world is changing. Our demographics are changing. Our economy is changing, again. Congress is locked in an ideological battle much of which has to do with not knowing where to place the change that has come, and will keep coming, within the old framework. But we have to accept it, and seize it, as we always have, and use it to our benefit. We didn't become the sole indispensable nation of earth by cowering in the face of change. We didn't get to where we are by continually conserving the past. We got here by adapting, by creating new and different ventures. "Can do", remember? That's who we are.
So, we killed bin Laden a few days ago because he was trying to reach back and conserve a past that will never return by killing those he thought were the agents of change. He was, of course, doomed from the first. Here in the United States there are those who are trying to conserve a past that they never understood in the first place. They won't succeed anymore then Al Qaeda, or the Taliban will. The problem is the mess these fearful people create that the rest of us have to clean up while we are moving ahead to meet the always changing world.
This is a great time to be alive.
BSB
