Constantly Changing Flow

I thought Lawrence's essay Why the Novel Matters brought up an interesting idea when he wrote about the idea that life is constantly changing, particularly in his use of the word "flow." He writes, "There is no absolute good, there is nothing absolutely right. All things flow and change, and even change is not absolute" (186). I think this idea is seen in the "Women in Love" novel in the character of Birkin in the scene in which he is throwing stones into the water. He seems to see the moon as this immutable, unchangeable thing, and seeks to continue the flow and change of the moon's image. He does this by consistently breaking the image of the moon on the water's surface, therefore "disrupting" its uniformity. I thought this idea became even more interesting later in Lawrence's essay when he states, "My yea! of today is oddly different from my yea! of yesterday. My tears of tomorrow will have nothing to do with my tears of a year ago" (186). I agree with the idea that what makes us happy or sad today is different from what made me feel some way in the past. For example, I might have liked to get a toy for my birthday when I was younger, but now I would be more interested in getting clothes or music. A second example would be that I was sad to leave my parents as a small child, but now get excited at the thought of being on my own.