WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
Most of us don’t like change. Why? Because it means making an effort to move out of our perceived comfort zones. Very often change also brings uncertainty with it. Few see opportunities. Many are paralysed, disorientated or confused by lack of stability or too many options. Life today is like a hypermarket with about an average of 70,000 products stocked on the shelves. You enter a shop because you want to buy an apple, and you end up buying a banana. Who knows why?
Of course your reaction to change depends on where you are in life. You may be a student, unemployed, an entrepreneur, a freelancer or a company manager. Ever-increasing responsibilities such as family and children, a mortgage or employees may seem to make it impossible to change. They leave us exhausted at the end of the day. These responsibilities are in many cases the principal reasons for people putting up with the same situation, the same job, the same company for years on end. This continues until one day the environment forces us to change, pushing us. God alone knows whether towards good or bad.
‘The world changes, and we must change with it.’ There was nothing new about the words Barack Obama used on 20 January 2009. What was new was Obama’s attitude towards change: ‘Yes, we can.’
Taking this as a premise, wouldn’t it be better to prepare ourselves and take the initiative in embracing change in our lives instead of being changed by others? To take a positive attitude towards change? To see the exciting opportunities it offers, rather than just the threats? Personally I don’t like other people taking decisions in my life — I prefer to take them on my own, for better or worse. But at least I can stop blaming others. This saves a lot of time and energy which is far more enjoyably invested writing on an exciting new blank page: my future!
