"Change"

I've done lots of philosophizing about life's ups and downs, and have given and listened to all sorts of advice about how to get more ups and less downs. I've cheered and jeered my own advice and that of others. I've offered up and listened to lots of excuses as to why things are the way they are. I've rationalized, apologized, speculated, expostulated and ruminated out loud regarding the mysteries, the miseries, and the miracles of human existence. I've bitched and bellyached, worried and wondered, fussed and fretted, groaned and grumbled.

The other day Cory asked the question, "Maybe you're just scared?" And I think the answer is yes. If one accepts responsibility for ones own condition as I profess to do, than I have to admit that the reason I don't change it is fear. I think that we don't make changes because we associate more pain with any new situation than we do with the current one. That's why we don't give up our addictions, why we don't change jobs, why we don't stop catering to our children, or even why we don't sell everything we own and go to live in a tent in northern Saskatchewan.

Change is frightening! After all it could be worse!.....or....

...and I'll leave you with that...

“Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted."---Anon

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."---W. Edwards Deming

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."---Victor Frankl

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peter