Unless you've been living under a rock or something (no offense to any cave dwellers), you've most certainly heard the term "Life Changing" at least a few times in your lifetime....As as a matter of fact, many of times it's been used, it was in regards to your lifetime....So what am I getting at?....Well, it has occured to me, not to long ago, that we are as small down feathers from a bird...You know what I'm talking about....Those little, white, puffy feathers that take FOREVER to reach the ground...Yeah, when you really think about it, that's what we are...
See, those little feathers aren't affected just by gravity when they fall...No, they got gravity, air current and the ever changing environment to deal with...They are so delicate in their travel to the ground, that the slightest change in air current causes them to move around and shift position...Some winds may blow it left, and others to the right...and still you have others that either blow up, prolonging its downward journey, or down, hastening the feather's earthbound plummet...And what happens, is that no one factor solely possesses responsibility of that feather's direction....They all do...constantly.....
All that was to build up to my point....To define something as "life changing" is to exclude the rest of one's life as such....My friends, every moment in our lives are life changing....Whether it be that dollar you found on the ground, that "F" you got in Chemistry last year, or even that one morning when you got up and stubbed your toe on the bed...It's ALL life changing....It effects your thoughts, thereby directing decisions....It effects your emotions, thereby directing choice of words....It effects actions, thereby effecting others....And you know what else?...It's all one big chain reaction....One thought spawns a decision...That decision becomes an action...That action spawns results, therefore creating observances by which to base new thoughts and decisions off of, not to mention those of others....
If you have yet to make the connection, we, as feathers, are affected by the winds of Action, Thought, Emotion, and Occurance...It is by these forces of nature that we shift and change direction as a result from that thing which we have newly encountered....And, you see, it's even a little deeper than that....While some of these cause us to change things about us, such as choice in occupation, residence, breakfast, etc. (lateral change)...There are still those that cause things to change us, such as newly diagnosed cancer or a gym membership (longitudinal change)...You see, the feather's gonna drop eventually, that's a given....and when it does, its obcviously finished, it's not gonna drop anymore, one might even say that it would be "dead"...
And so it would be fitting to say that as Feathers, we all are falling through the Air of life, subject to the Gravity of time...Our directions our constantly changed and affected by the Currents of occurance that life has to offer us...And as feathers, we repeatedly move, sway, and cope with these conditions that we are faced with....Though some merely move us East while others tend to push us Southwest....there are still those that force us upward, delaying our time of final rest...and those that push us downward speeding and shortening our flight to stationary solace on the ground below...
It is at that moment that the winds play no role, and there are no more decisions to be made...Only an ending place is known and a starting point for it to be compared to...This way, we know where we were....and how far we came....