How I deal with change
I don't quit things, at least not often. This means that some of the activities I do now, I have been doing for 8, 10, 12 years. As I get older, the impact of these long term commitments start to appear. And they have been showing themselves to me glaringly over the past few weeks. The most obvious of these is on my swim team. Over the past 12 years that I have been around and on the team, the club has changed drastically. For me, it started as the team in the lowest division, barely able to win a meet, with very little swimmers, and a club that could barely keep the electricity going through August. Since then, we gained an entirely new group of dedicated members, grew the team, and money issues seized to exist due to the growth of the camp. From here, many of the people that I grew up around graduated, leaving very few that I recognize left. Also, leaving for an entire summer to go to Europe didn't help either. T...