change...always for the good?

Tuesday shall witness a change historic for America and possibly for a large part of the world...the new president speaks of change and represents it.

But perhaps a bigger change of which Barack Obama is just a manifestation started much before...i speak of the economic change or the economic meltdown as it turns out to be.

In the past hundred years big economic changes have normally been set into motion by war. Wars bring destruction and downturn and thus the opportunity of a renewed upturn and discovery of new frontiers. They bring down the high and mighty and create a new level playing field; they create new stars who have the chance to write their own story on the wall of time.

This time around the tide of economic change was set into motion perhaps by the "war on terror"; by the atrocities committed by both those who are fighting it and those they are fighting against. While this might be true of previous wars too, what is definitely different about this new war is that it is not over- no one knows how long it will last and the victor is not even in sight.

Obama is thus a star brought to the fore by a war different from the past and which will bring him unprecedented challenges to secure the tide of events in his favour.

However, Change as such, like in the past, will create new frontiers to be discovered, new level playing fields and new opportunities.

And so this shall be a change for the good- especially for those who cease the moment and like Obama try and make the most of it.

Long live change!!