on change

seldom change is a sudden process, one that we could not foresee. think of it as an earthquake, for example - even the greatest earthquake can be predicted by feeling small foreshocks or by noticing weird animal behaviours, for beasts can feel them coming. same happens with change. it does not come all of a sudden, crashing down on us and changing everything. before the point of no return, when the big change is inevitable, a chain of small changes was triggered, sometimes in such a subtle way that we can't see the big picture coming ahead. but those little change happen, and they happen as a sign. and once we understand the big picture (or are engulfed by it), we finally realise that it was supposed to be like that, for everything moved toward that direction - and, too often, we were oblivious to those events, so we couldn't stop them when we were given the chance.