Why do things have to change?

Change is all around us and as the saying goes, “change is as good as a holiday”, however holidays don’t always go as planned. For you doing the H.S.C soon, things have been changing quite a lot and the change can be quite scary, you just wish things could be easy again like in yr 7. This isn’t going to happen so we need to find ways to deal with the change and get passed the H.S.C. We see examples of change all around us, even in our school work, such as Gwen Harwood’s poetry. This article will help you find ways to deal with the change you are experiencing, you will survive the H.S.C!

Through reading In The Park by Gwen Harwood we see a clear view of the change one woman has experienced. The choices we make now affect our whole lives and we therefore must think clearly before we make decisions. “She whispered to the wind, they have eaten me alive”, here Gwen talks about how many young women don’t know the demands of being a mother and that this choice that led to h...