It always amazing to meet people who are resistant to change. In many ways, that’s like being resistant to life itself. Life is a growing experience, and growing, by definition, involves change. In essence, no change means no growth because the two are actually synonymous. If you look back on your life, you will discover that you have been reinventing yourself from the beginning. When you were a child, you saw a vision of the future based on your limited knowledge and experience.
Chances are, you didn’t grow up to fulfill your childhood vision of yourself. Probably because by the time you were a teenager, you had completely reinvented yourself. You had acquired new knowledge and had new experiences. Your whole perception of the world and your place in it had changed…..Instead of seeing life from a child’s point of view, you were beginning to see things as a young adult. You’re no longer the same person. When you take in new knowledge and implement it, it changes you. When you have new experiences and learn from them, it changes you. Whenever you act on what you learn it’s called growing. So as long as we continue to grow, we’ll need to reinvent ourselves periodically; resisting this process can have a very negative effect on our sense of joy and our enthusiasm for life. When we reinvent ourselves, it’s like multiplying our knowledge base and perspective. It allows us to consider things from several different angles/perspective. We don’t give up our former self, we simply add another dimension. And in closing, one should never force change, allow it to happen organically. Personal change = personal growth; but you can’t force something into existence. What will be will be, and what won’t……won’t
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