Change is hard. We resist it with
everything we have. We like the old ways! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Who
needs all these new-fangled thoughts and gadgets, anyway?
Ah, but change is inevitable. It is
constant. It is wonderful! Think of the big, exciting change that happened 43 years
ago when we went from simply dreaming about the moon, to actually standing on
it! Ponder how life improved when we changed from being helpless witnesses of
devastating epidemics, to being able to prevent many illnesses.
These are big changes; maybe it’s
the small ones that are more difficult to swallow. Have you resisted learning
how to text-message? Do you bemoan the advent of eReaders? Technology aside, we
hate it when our favorite deli closes, or our hair starts to grey, or our
children grow up. We want our parents to stay young and our backs to stay
strong and our favorite jeans to still fit.
It could be argued that not all
change is for the better; but in general, accepting and rolling with the
changes in our lives makes us stronger and more balanced. Learning new tasks
and new ways of performing old tasks encourages your brain to connect new
synapses, slowing – stopping?! – the expected, age-related degeneration of the
mind. So get someone to teach you how to send a text, and send one every day.
Try an eReader. Don’t worry, the story will be exactly the same. Give the new
deli a chance, and for heaven’s sake, the waistline on those old jeans are so
yesterday; buy a new pair! Take a different route to work, walk backwards up
the stairs, and eat dessert first. (Well, that last one may not improve your brain,
but it will make you smile!) Fire up the ol’ synapses! Use more of that grey
matter!
See change as a way to grow.
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| My changes: eReader, non-fiction, reading glasses, laptop Same old-same-old: "real" books, fiction, spiral notebooks, messiness |
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