It's an old axiom...one I know quite well and see quite clearly...but it's interesting how things like this can be forgotten when we grow complacent and comfortable in what we perceive to be our current situation.  Oddly, it's even more "shocking" to us when we already know that change is necessary, but do nothing to effect that change until Mind pushes through and creates it for us.

For example, I lost my job last week.  It came as a shock to me because I had stop being aware and present.  It should not have been a surprise.  I have said from time to time over the past year that I need to change jobs.  Find something that had a future, not something that merely fed my creativity.  Something that might present opportunities for growth along the way.  But I had grown comfortable in the rut of my "job" and found reason after reason not to change...until I no longer noticed that I wasn't even making excuses anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my job.  It was creative and fit well with my current fiber-focused artist side...but it was a dead end and completely reliant upon the owner (older than me) continuing business until I died...which, of course, was not likely.  There was no retirement program, no room for advancement....  But, rather than look for something else, I sat back into the comfort of what was there...limited or not.  Then the axe fell....and I am forced to look for something else.  Funny how that 2 x 4 of Awareness can smack you upside the head when you least expect it....when you allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security and forget to be Aware.