July 14th, 2008
If your life suddenly changed, would
you be able to survive the aftershock?
We lead very static lives wherein our
patterns, careers, families and friends are all relatively the same
until the day we die or no longer can recognize our surroundings.
But what would happen if, one day,
you found yourself in a completely different circumstance, having to
take another direction in life that is a far reach from your present
style of living?
How would you react? Knowing that everything
you've been living for has suddenly been abandoned and you're now forced
to re-acquire or re-establish yourself again?
It'd be like if Mickey Mouse suddenly
discovered puberty. His former life as a child's icon is long over,
but he'll find another career doing something else. It won't be as lavish
or as influential as his original career, but he'll survive, albeit
in a more absurd way.
Instead of doing classic children's
cartoons, he'd most likely be doing stand-up at a smoke-filled bar telling
off-coloured jokes. Big schism, isn't it?
Think of what happens to those who
come to work day in and day out for twenty to twenty-five years, suddenly
finding that they're forced to retire or are let go due to some weird
circumstance?
These people have spent nearly half
of their conscious lives living the only thing they know. So what happens
when that life and purpose has slipped out from under their foot and
are now forced to adopt to another portion or take another path?
Retirees have the hardest time to adjust
from a life change. They go from work-heavy to work-light life; the
concept of work has been all that they knew for the twenty or thirty
years. Now that they have no responsibility nor requirement to go to
work really hits them hard, thinking that the purpose of their life
has now passed them by. They sit there and feel useless.
Or those people we went to school with
who seemed to have prosperous lives ahead of them upon graduation. But
a slight social mistake a few years after caused them to abandon that
inspired future and into one of refuse and dismay.
We've become so accustomed to relentless
redundancy that any mention of change sends shivers up the spines of
so many people.
If you were paying attention during
English Literature class in highschool, the witches in Macbeth
simply put mankind's life in perspective: "Security is man's downfall".
Meaning, when we become too comfortable,
it poses a risk to our own fortification and security. We do not keep
a vigilant watch on the horizons for potential threats, nor do we bother
to anticipate any alterations that could envelop our secured kingdoms
any moment.
When it does, we crumble and succumb
to the intruding forces as though we opened the door and let them in
with no resistance at all.
Change can happen at any moment, at
any time, to anybody. The question then becomes this: would you be ready
to either fight or figure out the change so as to not completely throw
your life into disarray and collapse?
As learned from Macbeth, if
you prepare for change at every moment, then you won't be disappointed
or surprised when it actually does happen.
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