Life is about constant change. Though sometimes minor, we see change daily. We meet new clients, try new restaurants for lunch and find alternate driving routes at road detours. The world rotates, and so do we. We experience change, and so we become change. As I look out my apartment window onto the bright lights of Chicago, I think about the significant changes I will face in these quickly approaching weeks. This, I realize, is my final countdown.

Last year, while catching up on my DVRed Oprah episodes one Saturday, I watched an interview with Oprah and Queen Rania of Jordan. I do not remember exactly what the interview was about, but I do remember hitting pause after the Queen said something that really hit home for me. I immediately wrote it down: ”We’re programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us…Life is in perfect balance. It’s just that our perception of it isn’t.”