There are two aspects to change that give me pause. The first is change in the outside world. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was in trying to find happiness though changing the world and what was happening in it; no, correction, I also tried to change the way people behaved.
I was trying to find contentment and all I got for my troubles was a sight more frustration - I was unable to change a damn thing. Then I learned that I needed to find total acceptance - to be able to accept that the world was exactly as it should be. I struggled for a long time with this, only to be frustrated by the fact that as soon as I learned to accept something ... it changed, seemingly often to something that I would find harder to accept.
The lesson I finally learned was that I needed to learn to accept change> That way I discovered the consolation that everything is transitory - even the screen on which this text is displayed, one day it will be dust again.
I am grateful that I don't have the attitude of somebody I overheard in a cafe bemoaning the fact that they are getting more and more miserable because they want things to stay exactly as they are.
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