Any efforts to keep change at bay will be fruitless. Sometimes, this same effort - trying to avoid the inevitable - leads to frustration, anger, and even violence as individuals attempt to prevent change. When many individuals of like mind then group together, we find demonstrations and riots.
Equally, we can think that things are not changing sufficiently, and those same things arise.
If change is happening that challenges us, learning to accept and adapt will benefit us more than becoming emotional and reactive.
If we feel that change needs to be made, we must first begin with ourselves and set the example. The greater the number of examples, the more quickly examples become staples, and everyone changes. Quietly, fashionably, and without riot.
That change WILL happen is the one law we must all, inevitably, obey.
...and the sooner we realise it the better it is!
ReplyDeleteChange can be very challenging, but it can also be good:)
ReplyDeleteTo quote my sister-in-law (on an occasion of frustration with a certain member of my family), "dinosaurs went extinct because they couldn't adapt".
ReplyDeleteCheers! Gail.
Hi Yam - yes ... change is inevitable ... and I love Bouncing Bertie's note on her SIL's thoughts about dinosaurs. I enjoy change - though in my life it seems to entail work to get through ... ah well!! Doesn't do me any harm ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteChange is never easy and accepting it is a good plan.
ReplyDeleteIt is true, change we can count on. I guess it keeps us on our toes and learning.
ReplyDeleteWe have had to adapt to the last few years of change.
The riots by antivaxxers befuddle me. Such anger.
this is 100 percent True. I am not a fan of change, like right now I am dreading and trying to decide if I want to download the Windows 11. they promised it would not change and now it has. change is inevitable for sure
ReplyDeleteOh yes..for many years I was in comfort zone when things are the same. The last two years one thing I have learned is change is constant.
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
I can live easily with more change than all things remaining the same. A simple rearrangement of accessories can make all the difference in an attitude. namaste, janice xx
ReplyDeleteI used to thrive on change - change is opportunity. The thing is to understand what the foundations are for you, the things on which you can rely when all else is moving. For some people that is simply some kind of internal compass; that's enough. Something in the magnetic field seems to have swung in recent years, change in some things seems pointless, unnecessarily disruptive, even regressive and although I adhere to the mantra 'change is opportunity', I'm questioning whose opportunity some of the changes have been manipulated to advantage... ok that doesn't entirely make sense but it feels currently like politics/the world is being run on some sort of insider trading basis, and the rest of us are placing bets on rigged tables.
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DeleteI understand; there is certainly a sense of things being a bit stacked against the underdog again at the moment. That is all part of the great wheel of social reorganisation. Within that, we do have to find our level of adaptation - not necessarily as acquiescence or surrender, but as self-preservation and sanity-saving. The level of adaptation that permits us then to begin to 'be the change we wish to see'... Yxx
Hello Yam
ReplyDeleteAfter an unexpectedly difficultly December - as much logistical as anything - I'm finally catching up on some of my favourite blogs to wish their authors a happy new year and say thanks for reading and commenting on mine. Yours has been a new find for me this year, and what a delight it has been - so too your enthusiastic participation in conversation and feedback. Your work is, I think, blogging at its best.
Meanwhile, I hope next year brings us better times and plenty of words (and pictures) to inspire and entertain.
Best wishes
Mark
It's for sure change cannot be stopped.
ReplyDeleteAnd, if you can't change it, change your attitude! LOve it! Barb
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