Sunday, September 30, 2007

VI. On Change.

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind.
To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse.
To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."

Everything changes. Our surroundings, ourselves, our worlds; they're ever-changing. It's the type of change that differs though. But in the end, its consistency is what makes it necessary for us to learn how to adapt to it.

You can speak about change being part of evolution; if nothing changed, the world would never have developed and grown and become what it is. "Essential change" you may call it; without it, the world would be uninhabitable.

Change may be a burden. Something you just aren't in the right mind to put an effort into adjusting to. Something that you wish had never happened; an experience, a loss, a life-altering decision gone terribly wrong. Altering your perspective is the only way out.
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Then there are the changes that you long for, thinking and hoping and wishing that once they happen, everything will fit into place. Truly perfect? Seldom so. But when they do fulfill your expectations, they make your world a more beautiful place.
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Change may suddenly sweep you off your feet. Randomly unexpected, it may be sent as a blessing, overwhelming you with awe. Absent from even your most eccentric dreams, you wonder what you ever did to deserve such a gift.
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People change. Best of friends drift apart and become strangers. Couples lose their spark. Enemies become worth the benefit of the doubt. People change- some for the worst, some for the best, beyond our control either way.

"Nothing is constant but change."

Savvy Doc.

1 comment:

iDoc said...

I thik the fact that change is so normal, we have difficulty to fully appreciate it in any context... and though it maybe one of those over talked about topics, it never ceizes to amaze us. Life is about change, even if you're environment is the same and nothing is happening to you, time is changing...

So we just leave it to take it's course... what else do we do, we take it in our stride and so be it. Enjoy it, detest it you can't do anything about it... after all it's usually in you hand that it happened in the first place!