The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I don't like that saying. At all.

Maybe its the black and white application of logic that I, for better or worse, use to make sense of the world that turns me off to such a plainly contradictory statement.  But how far can logic get you in understanding life anyway?

Example: Everyone wants their life to be different in some way. Whether its money, power, location, job, et cetera, we want a change to occur in atleast a small facet of our lives.

So logically, when you think change would equal happiness and change occurs, you should be happy. A classic logical proof.

So as it always does, change occurs.  Its the only thing thats ever stays the same. And what we find, is that we miss the past.  Budhists have a great way to deal with the aforementioned effect; Don't become attached to anything if your only going to suffer when its gone.

As this is being published on my phone from atop an exercise ball, I have lost my train of thought entirely.

There was some intelligent conclusion regarding our return to Gettysburg College alumni weekend and my sentiments as to being implanted into my past.

But all I really can come to think or now is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.