Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
I haven't really written about Change. I have only alluded to it. Change is curious and very difficult. It comes in many forms. For the past two years, I have been in a very large state of change. I look at it like my life is like a laundry basket that has clean things, random items from my pockets as well as a few dirty socks. Mine was dumped out onto the floor and instead of just throwing everything back in, I have been evaluating all of the components. It has been an interesting process and from this, I have learned a few things (these are not in any particular order).
- If you change externally, nearly everyone will only see you as the person you were and not what you are now or working on becoming.
- Only change for your self as that is the most important person in your life.
- People will pick a place in time for you and that is where you are suppose to stay (physically, intellectually and emotionally).
- Truly life is not fair. So just get over it.
2 comments:
You have summarized the nature of change perfectly :-) External changes (sex changes excluded) don't challenge other's perception of you nearly as much as internal change does. When people who've known you for a while look at you, they are just as often looking past you. But deep-rooted changes such as religious or philosophical ones require people to readjust the box they've placed you in. Career changes often have the same effect.
Eric - well said.
It is equally interesting watching others look at change both within themselves and within others. It is amazing to see that when we don't accept the change in others, it is those things that we want to see changed in ourselves. Maybe when we stop judging we will start changing.
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