As I see all around me, in all the tangibility, I witness one constant- “change”. Change is our best friend and our worst enemy. Accept change, you thrive. Reject change you perish.
Nature is a living proof of the change. New foliage from green turns yellow than amber and then falls off, change in reptile skin, nesting birds full of care for their little ones when time is ready push their babies to leave their comfortable home, mountains & rivers renewing themselves- their size, path and all the life forms they support.
Even manmade sports keep on changing & evolving from test cricket to twenty-twenty formats in cricket; hockey ground field to astro turfs. We even see the shift in our lifestyle, product usage & thinking too – scooter to car, home cooked meals to takeaways, cameras to mobiles, classrooms to online teaching, joint to nuclear family.
We humans are contradictions. We have two unique and unmatched qualities:
- We are flexible/adaptive and,
- We are also creatures of our habit.
Change itself is embraced either willingly, coercively or reluctantly. Our ability to adapt makes it possible to change- we change from students to working professional to retirees. Each stage needs adaptability and flexibility to adjust to the change. At the same time, we resist the change because we are in a habit to live in a particular way. And this contradiction is what we struggle with change.
As we move into our retirement, readjusting to the new way of living becomes a struggle for many. I know people who resist it, fight it and make it a miserable process. Remember the choice to change is yours to control.
The enigma lies in why do we still yearn for the constant & unchangeable!.
