I am going to change my life today, well atleast one aspect of it. I wish I was strong enough, brave enough or stupid enough to go after I want. I can comfortably say, I've said that one too many times. We all have I guess. I think a part of the reason why we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won't happen twice. We remember the beginning, the good times, the great times and that's what we fear we'll never happen again.
We have a habit of resisting change, call it comfort or just habit. We aren't really excited about drastic differences in the way our lives go on. Even those of us who so proudly parade that we live on the edge, not necessarily adventurous but who's call of the day is spontaneity. Some sort of routine, something that we are so used to doing blindly without even blinking or a second thought. In a world that is change constantly changing, we need something to remain constant. Right?
No, because change is inevitable, change is how we progress, change is the only constant. When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant.
How we accept change now that is upto us, if we refuse then that's it, we'll never move ahead, progress or be any different. think about it, if we never grew up, never changed like we asked every person in our school scrapbooks to do so; we'd be the same naive, clueless version of ourselves just older. But here's the good bit, if we do just give it a chance, open up our fingers, change can actually be quite exciting.
So here it goes, my famed parting note and a quote by the man himself : If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Steve Jobs
