Change: a problem or solution?

Change is an inevitable constant; revolution is the unwritten law and variation is the only indisputable surety. While at one end change is understood to be absolute and predictable; there is also constant bickering when it occurs. If only the mind, body, intellect; and each one’s environment changed in synchrony. Erraticism in the external world is condemned by all; even though eccentricities in one’s own behavior are estimated as defensible. Most of life’s inadequacies would seem fulfilled if one could welcome change: in oneself as well as the world around us…

Changing ecosphere

The world is transforming each day; geographically, historically, ecologically, climatically, scientifically as well as emotionally. Children grow up, spouses get old, parents too; salaries rise but expenses skyrocket at greater magnitudes, friends get busy with their own newer friends, the favorite restaurant changes its chef and the weighing scale seems to be lying to us each time we get on it! There is so much change in life at every step and each turn. And few of us are ready to accept them.

Resistance and fight

We are only too comfortable in our skin. We don't want to adapt; we expect the world to mold itself around us; no matter what. Life is simulated to a pack of instant food today; easy solutions, quick fixes, laid-back attitudes. The inertia makes the unruly clay of personality hard, and disallows any movement from the static. One becomes rigid, inflexible, stubborn and arrogant. What starts as inertia, culminates in broken friendships, messy relationships and poor social connects.

Consequences

Change facilitates growth. Change makes all the difference. Change can move mountains. But change requires effort. It demands energy that we need to believe we are capable of putting in. Failure to bend leads to uprooting of trees; humans can barely stand a chance in the storms that life throws our way perpetually. Adaptation to the environment and assimilating the milieu into one’s own style is a prudent choice.

• My children don’t seem to need me anymore
• I've put on weight and it feels really so horrible
• I lost that chance; I can’t get to looking for a job again
• My husband has changed, he feels work is more important
• I have been doing the same thing why is business going down?

Adaptation is the key to survival; complaining indeed isn't.  Darwin wasn't wrong when he stated that survival needs one to be the ‘fittest’.

Metamorphosis

There is pressing need to change, alter thinking processes, rework perceptions, modify routines, and reform actions. Presumably each one knows what is good, what’s right and what is just. Everyone can make the right choices. However the comfort of inertia does only turns into annoyance when challenges come up and coax one into action. As much as one pushes the task, one eventually gets into the corner oneself. Action is the only key to survival then. One needs to metamorphose to become that pretty butterfly, else one will remain a slug lifelong…