By Hannah Criss

Change comes gradually at least that’s what you’re taught or what you think or experience growing up.

The slow changing of the seasons.

Or the way you slowly grow till you can barely remember the days when you couldn’t see above the kitchen counter.

Or the new wrinkles you begin to notice on your once young families faces.

But not all change is so forgiving, not all change can give you warning like the slow rise in temperatures alerting us to a much bigger change coming.

Some change is sudden like the rain pouring on a supposedly sunny day.

Some change comes like a lightning strike leaving you blinded for a moment by the white filling your room.

For some, change is the announcement of a move across the world.

For some, change is a divorce so sudden you’re packing your bags that night.

For some, change is a death that shakes the foundations of your moral compass and your soul.

For some, change is such a unique experience you can’t describe what changed to your friends, because maybe you changed.

Everyone experiences change, change is the foundation of our lives, change is the difference between Monday and Tuesday, change is what makes you unique, change is why you cry and why you rejoice.