Have you noticed what complex creatures human beings are? We really don’t make sense. Very few statements you could make about a person, even yourself, are always true.
- I am people phobic – I need to be around people – I am stubborn – I am open (I like to think so anyway) – I am hard working – I am lazy …
Really doesn’t make any sense.
Here’s another one for you – I hate change, and I need change. Good or bad, change is scary – I don’t like not being in control.
There is great risk of personal injury when you don’t know what’s happening … especially if you do not have a hand in directing the change. I don’t know if it is easier or harder to deal with change if you have some control of it. At least then you have a chance to moderate it and direct it – injuries are sometimes both harder or easier to deal with when you know they were your fault. I don’t like being hurt or uncomfortable.
Change can bring about many unpleasant results. It can hurt, it can end, and it can crush.
BUT …
I need change. If I don’t have change I feel stagnant, unfulfilled, wasted, depressed, bored, and of less worth. Self chosen change is like morning mist, like a frosted wood, and like storm cleared air. It energizes, enlivens, awakens, lifts, and makes everything else in your life brighter, lighter, and easier to bear. It carries with it hope, and this hope diffuses into many seemingly unrelated areas in my life. If I something good can happen or be caused to happen here, then surely good things are happening or about to happen elsewhere too! I subconsciously start looking for the good elsewhere and find it! I see the world differently. This kind of change breeds excitement with life.
With this good kind of change, it is the process rather than the product that is most thrilling. The continual discovery, and development that brings such a high. New tastes, sights, smells, sounds … the discovery of new capabilities and the development of such. It is a great thing to know you can. It is liberating to know you don’t know the limit of the great, and good you can do and experience. It breeds joy and anticipation for the new day. What am I going to stumble across today?
Change can bring freedom.
So … yes … people are complicated. And change …
