It can be hard to believe that it has been a year since the transition of how I am being transported for day service and work each day went from service-provided vans to the county shared-ride system. While I initially did not receive the news of this change very well in the beginning, recently, I have learned that the old way of doing things is now extinct and this is now the way of how transportation will be done going forward.

Getting to this point has not been an easy point for me to get to. I had a lot of hatred, discernment, resentment and even vindication towards those behind the change wanting to call out their faults for this happening. I was truly angry about this change happening and wanted to throw all my opportunities away just because of a simple change and not letting it work itself out for whatever it would be.

But through much coaching, I had to learn to let it work out for whatever it was going to be and it was not like the ones behind the change was going to let me out there hanging, they are still out there supporting us in the change, while I did not initially believe that was going to happen, it was a successful transition with just a few bumps in the way, but all in all things were even better for me as a result as making the change to the shared-ride system.

While the change had been successful, there were still those negative feelings that I was experiencing, and I was struggling with learning to let them go for whatever reason they were building up inside me. It was things that I had been led to believe for a long time that had not allowed me to see that my feelings were only to be mine and not anyone else’s. I had to realize that I had to let go of the feelings that I was experiencing and realize that there were many benefits to doing what had to be done as it relates to the transportation system working the way that it does.

Through all of this, I had learned that change can be a good thing if you allow it to work out and see if things be beneficial for me. Making this switch provided me with many other opportunities that I would not otherwise need to have because of my father’s injury, which I may need to be able to transport myself independently. It comes in handy when things needed attended to by my father, and that can be comforting to others when it is needed, for that is what it is there for.

In the end, I am doing much better at working at accepting that things do change and what was then is what it was and that this is now, and I must be willing to continue to accept the practices of what is being done now to allow me to foster the independence that I need to have in order to transport myself in the community. Having this door open has been a good thing and I am grateful that I allowed myself to take the chance and see that things can work if you too take the chance and let them work out for themselves.