Change change

I don't like change. I want it to stop. They keep messing with the blog, "they" being the people from Google who run blogger, and it bothers me. I can function just fine as long as things stay the same. Start messing with things, especially technological things, and I'm discomfited. Change is NOT always progress. Sometimes it's just showing off. Sometimes it's making things worse. Much, much worse. Look at what they did to my school's website. Since the so-called "improvements" were made, I haven't been able to log into the stuff I used to be able to access easily.

So in some instances, I vote against change. In others, I support it. I'm not so dumb that I want to stay in the frying pan, nor do I wish to leap into the fire. Politics is one area where I'm all for change, just not change for the sake of change. Think about it first. Make it better. Do it logically and slowly and carefully, not suddenly and carelessly. It's like the woman whose bad driving killed my niece. One of the first lessons one learns in drivers education is not to overcorrect. I recall clearly my teacher Mr. Nix saying that if we found ourselves distracted and going off the edge of the road, the worst thing we could do would be to suddenly jerk ourselves back onto the road. "Ease back onto the road," he told us. Of course, idiot Carla runs off the edge of the road, jerks the wheel, goes into a spin (it's raining), and her car ends up on the other side of the road, slammed up against a grove of trees.

My younger son is married to a woman who has two sisters, one older, one younger. The younger one is only 15 or 16 years old. Recently she discovered that she was pregnant, and like with most teen romances, by the time she found out she was pregnant, she and the boy had parted ways. That didn't stop him from harassing her night and day. He was terrified that she'd be trying to get child-support money from him. So the young woman "took care of it," medically speaking. As much as I hate the idea of abortion as a convenience, I hate even more the idea of a person's education and life plans being tossed aside for the sake of a pregnancy. My older son's wife has a stepsister who opted to marry the guy and stay with him. She's had two or three kids since then. He's a lousy husband and father, and she's re-discovered her desire to go to college. But now it's much, much harder, and the girl, who once was thought very promising intellectually, is rapidly becoming another statistic.

So change only for the sake of change is seldom good. Let the change be made for reasonable reasons, and implement as much assistance as possible. Then the change will be for the right reasons, and it will work and benefit everyone.