Here’s something I’m wondering about today.
Everyone is changing. All the time. Even the most change resistant or vocally opposed to change are changing. The world is changing and everyone within it is as well.
Becoming more entrench or resistant to change is in and of itself a form of change.
People don’t fear change. They fear loss.
As the world changes people’s relationships with their environment changes. As this happens we have a choice to make about how we will engage others and our environment. That choice is our change.
People who say they don’t like change, are simply unaware that they are changing to.
People who are stubbornly resistant to change today, probably weren’t as much at one point in their past. In fact they may have been the early adopters of the new 50 years ago.
but ultimately it’s not age that determines how well you change.
It’s you ability to accept what comes your way. Some may call this humility. Others gratitude.
But the ability to let go of things that have been dear or the inability to let go is more about humility and gratitude than anything else.
Of course the opposite is true. Your desire to change everyone else, is often born out of your inability to deal with your own motivations and fears. It’s simply easier to try to change others than it is yourself.
Parents try to change their kids and make them do things they themselves don’t do. Like try new things, meet new friends.
Pastors try to change the people in their churches for the same reason.
Again. This is change that a parents and pastors are unaware of.
Then there are authors of blog posts. but that’s another story.