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July 30, 2011

Can Change be GOOD?

A month living under unfamiliar conditions, fresh surroundings and having to put up with grit from the main road and vehicular noise has made me a little more patient, in some sense. It would seem like this move was a very bad idea, because the past 4 weeks have found me spending more time OUTSIDE my space. A close colleague thinks another 4 weeks would settle me a little more...however, i'm doubtful.

There is no lesson I can share today, except that, change is as good as we can accept it to be. No one likes change, wherever it may be - seating in the office, how things are done - we tend to cast the procedure in place automatically and then find ourselves unable to make the adjustment when a pole shifts. I'm not even sure if learning by rote is responsible for this auto-response, but I do know that if something has 'worked' for a long time, why would we have a need to tune it?

Well, we may think it is working, which isn't incorrect. But there will always be a better way to get it working. But what if we don't want better? Well, we will not have a basis to compare, until we experience what 'better' is. Therefore, we should learn to be less unbending and more open to accept new ideas and try new ways of doing things.

The problem is not the change - it's our inability to adjust as quickly - perhaps that's why another 4 weeks may settle me in my new environment a little more.