Our Susceptibility to Change

Coming from a small town and studying in a high school in my neighbourhood, and when I could barely fathom the meanings of small English sentences, I got to read the line, "change is the law of nature". As I retrospect, i find just like the other most basic lessons in our lives, we have forgotten this basic lesson as well.

Change - that's the thing we hate the most. Though we are taught in almost every step of life that continual improvement is most important for a person's growth, we cease to accept it and when it comes to volatility of thoughts, this thing evaporates off our mind almost everytime.

We need be reminded of this simple yet important lesson over and over again.

Forget the big things, we refrain from changes in the simplest daily lifestyle...

Won't allow mom to touch my bed inspire of the mess it is in just because I know where I have the things kept secured in that mess.

Won't change my mobile service provider just because I am used to using it.

Won't change the brand of facewash, shampoo and we smartly cover it up by calling ourselves 'brand consciousness'.

Ghanta!!!! We are just used to things a certain way and don't wanna change....

We are too lazy for it and too adversarial...

The reality is that its because of this skepticism towards change that makes our lives miserable in situations of misery.... The bigger broader things in our lives..

We receive criticism as negative and not as chance to improve.

We face failures and just like a default function programmed in us, we enter the sad mode without realizing the lesson learnt out of it.

Betrayals are taken as most shocking states and perceived as the end of life although these are the phases which teach us the maximum. Direct experience...

People going away from our lives. Yes it hurts. It damn hurts coz neither we nor them wanted to leave each other. Looking for teachings out of it (may be by God) we learn being more strong, can just go out and f*** the...