Resistance Is Futile
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Ken Bechtel in The Goo Blog
Many people I know are experts at resisting change. I definitely qualify as a change resistor at times. I am sure you know a few folks like this as well.
This resistance always makes me laugh, because if I told them I was going to take away their right to change they would fight me tooth and nail to keep it.
We hate hearing that we have to choose what we want by a certain date because after that date we can’t change our choice. Even if our right to change is restricted for only a year, like with health insurance, we are uncomfortable with this limitation.
Change is why we are here in this life. I mean, what would be the point of living if we never changed? We would just be a bunch of little, uncoordinated, inarticulate bundles of human. If we did not change, we would be new born babies our entire life.
What? That is ridiculous. Well so is the idea that change is bad.
Change is life and life is good. Deep down, when we let go of all our resistance to the life we are experiencing we realize that life is good. It has to be, why else would people be buying all those shirts and hats that say “Life is Good†if it weren’t true? J
Some folks think change indicates that whatever was before the change was wrong, but that is inaccurate. The definition of change is: to make or become different. It says nothing about fixing what was wrong.
Look at the synonyms for change: alter, adjust, adapt, amend, modify, revise, refine; reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, rework, remodel, reorganize, reorder; vary, transform, transfigure, transmute, metamorphose, evolve. Again there is nothing here about fix or correct.
Sure there are changes we make that don’t work out the way we envisioned. Great! Every time we learn something that does not work for us, it gets us closer to finding out what does work for us. This is the process of elimination. The same technique that many of us used in school to pass multiple choice tests.
As famous inventor, Harold “Doc†Edgerton, would say when an experiment turned out differently than expected, “Now we are really getting someplace!â€
As the saying goes, the only thing that is constant is change, and it is true. So we may as well make friends with it.
