“Excuse me while I get this out...”
(A quote from Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
We hear so much about change these days, particularly from those on the business ladder. Managers, we are told, must be excellent at “change management” and able to effectively communicate change in a positive manner.
So many of us say that we want to change, and the world is full of standards it wants us to change up to. We have to be fitter, eat a better diet, attend health clubs, recycle, be kind to the environment and look great naked. etc. etc.
So many standards, so much change - and all of it portrayed as good.
The funny thing is that when change is actually forced upon us by something such as divorce, changed employment or relocation we rarely see it as anything other than bad, or at the very least, hard to endure. It seems to me, on observing myself, that whilst I say I like change, in reality, I'm a lot happier when things stay much the same.
The only trouble is that after a while of this I start to complain that not enough is happening. Then, I start to wish that something would happen, and I imagine I am stagnating. I worry that life is just passing me by and I am not properly contributing to the loveliness of it for others.
So it goes on. Humans. Honestly.
All I would say, by way of summing up, is that perhaps we should stop and take stock in the midst of the mad stuff that sometimes happens around us, and glimpse the truth that at that time, for us something is happening. Possibilities exist that do not normally exist. Life is not passing us by, quite the opposite. We have an opportunity to take it by the scruff of the neck and rejoice in the freedom we are presented with - in whatever form it takes.
I think it's possible that change is as good as we want it to be.
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