Your Effectiveness In Confronting Change

There are times when you will feel dissatisfied with the happenings around you, but as long as you do nothing about it, the trend will continue unending. This is the reason why, if you want something different, then you have to take steps towards it. As long as humans live, change is inevitable - some will be triggered by you while some will be results from the actions of others. However, one thing to know is that you may not be able to determine the actions of others, but your own actions are within your choice, and you can choose how to react or respond to changes.

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When change comes, you should know when to welcome it or when to react against it. That is, there are some changes that, no matter how you try, you cannot stop them from happening (for example, you cannot stop the weather from changing from the hot period to the chilling harmattan period), so you should learn to welcome such changes that you cannot change (like you can choose to adopt wearing thick clothing to protect yourself). Then there are some other kind of changes that you can determine, so you should not leave them in the hands of fate to determine them for you. But most importantly, you need an extensive amount of wisdom and maturity to be able to know that kind of change that is within your choice to influence and the others, so as to know how to respond to them. This reminds me of the words by one of my friends in relation to change:

You have to learn to welcome what you cannot change, then change what you can, but you should also know the difference between them.

Even though change happens every now and then, obviously as part of human existence, but many people have reservations about change itself and as such, it is frequently misunderstood. It is not surprising because many people tend to have second thoughts about what they have not experienced before while some others have mixed feelings about new things - so it is common for change to be misunderstood. However, without change, the very essence of life will be lost. It is the hope of change that makes life worth living.

You will agree with me that many things that are applicable in this era only existed as wild imaginations in the past. As the days go by, humanity experiences newer innovation and emerging trends, but we also should be able to welcome and deal with the changes that arise as a result of the emergence of new trends. The truth is that; just like revival and revolution; no one can stop change from happening as long as humans still exist. The most that anyone can succeed to do is to exclude themself from partaking of the change.

Life should be followed with a flexible approach and not to rigidly and dogmatically following after a particular way of living or being straitjacketted into a particular format or procedure. That is, without change, life will become "as it was in the past, so shall it be in the present." Even in evolutionary biology, evolutionists believe that humans in this extant form have evolved (changed) from some very crude hominid species. This also proves that change has been one of the very constants of life.

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When something has been happening in a particular way and you want to have a different result, it is necessary for you to change your approach towards that thing. In the same way, when something is not happening and you want it to start happening, you also need to effect some changes. If you do not herald the kind of change that you want through your actions, then you will be subjected to the effects of the changes that are brought about by someone else's actions. Obviously life keeps moving. Just like my friend will jokingly say:

In life, it is either you are doing something or something is doing you.

What this simply means is that if you decide not to take actions - the required actions towards what you want at the right time, you may become a victim of the actions of someone else. One thing you need to understand is that change does not just happen, they are resultant effects of actions. So take positive actions to see the positive change you want.

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