Let’s face it, most of us are lazy. We like our routines, no matter how detrimental to our quality of life they might be. Even when little signs start appearing in our lives, whispering to us that maybe it’s time for a big change, we tend to ignore them for years, if not all the way to the grave. We just don’t like change. Even Jim and I made the move to sell our business only after Jerry got sick. Like many, it took a traumatic event to get our butts in gear.

But change doesn’t always have to come about as the result of sickness or loss. One person we recently met at a campground is absolute proof that when we humans do embrace change and run with it, the rewards in life are so much greater than staying with the status quo.

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