Embrace Change
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Recently, a friend was offered a great job opportunity. This job required him to move to another city. Even though he was excited to begin at the new workplace, he was not content because he had developed an attachment with everything he’d be leaving behind.
In short, he was both embracing the opportunity and resisting the change that came with it.
Humans don’t like change. I would go ahead and say we hate it. It leaves us unsatisfied and uneasy. In the face of change, we protest: “Why can’t we continue with what we have? Why can’t we just let things be as they are forever?”
Needless to say, we crave the idea of sameness and of not having to lift a finger. It brings an unusual sort of comfort.
This incident with my friend got me thinking: If we don’t embrace change with open arms, how can we embrace success, happiness and love that the Universe bestows upon us? We won’t. We will continue to remain stuck instead.
Truth be told, dealing with change is not difficult. It’s how we perceive change that makes it such a distasteful event. Change is always inviting us to explore, to open up and to allow. It’s the key to leading a life full of abundance, if you ask me.
Prior to 2007, I was stuck and confused. I was a 26-year-old over-worked, confused and worn-out engineer. And I was something else, too: unhappy.
However, over the past three years, through creating and writing on my blog, not only have I created a new career for myself but also have found happiness.
Looking back, I realize one thing. All this could never have happened if I didn’t embrace change. If I didn’t allow, I would still be an over-worked, unhappy engineer who was thrown a hefty pay-check just to keep doing what the job asked her to. Not so attractive.
So, my point? Expect and accept change in your life. Do not get attached to events because everything that happens is a learning lesson and the best is always yet to come.
Become friends with change and the challenge will dissolve. Everything will be a smooth sail instead. If change appears as something “untoward,” well it is exactly that because you look at it as so. Change your lens and see differently.
Letting change happen is very liberating. Let go of the shackles and see for yourselves.
So which next change is staring you in the eye? A new job? A new place? Neighborhood? Routine? Make friends with it and just allow. You will be surprised how it was a nudge in the right direction after all.
- Tina Su
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