Change is a good thing.
What makes it hard is not the change itself, but our tendency to want to hold on to the unchanged
We resist, often illogically, to move away from how things "used to be" even if the past seemed highly imperfect and dissatisfying at the time when it was the present. It feels comforting, I guess, to hang on with screeching tooth-nails to the familiar, when facing the unknown.
I think we would do well to remember that "change is a good thing", because it is inevitable anyway. And because it is less work flowing with the current than trying to unsuccessfully swim against it.
Just saying.
What makes it hard is not the change itself, but our tendency to want to hold on to the unchanged
We resist, often illogically, to move away from how things "used to be" even if the past seemed highly imperfect and dissatisfying at the time when it was the present. It feels comforting, I guess, to hang on with screeching tooth-nails to the familiar, when facing the unknown.
I think we would do well to remember that "change is a good thing", because it is inevitable anyway. And because it is less work flowing with the current than trying to unsuccessfully swim against it.
Just saying.
2 comments:
Well said. Accepting change is simple in theory, but harder in practice. I like that you distinguished between the difficulty lying not with the change itself, but with our tendency to hold onto "the way things were."
//And because it is less work flowing with the current than trying to unsuccessfully swim against it.//
Only thing is that the perspective of current differs depending on the side from where you are looking at it.
http://www.concurrentmusingsofahumanbeing.blogspot.com/2012/06/1-how-some-people-succeed-well-in.html
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