Things are changing
I have read this quote the other day that said the only permanent thing in life is change itself. It was from the book Ego is the enemy, by Ryan Holiday. The truth is if everything is impermanent, we should hold on to change. If we could plan ahead we would not be dwelling on uncertainty. As humans, we need things to happen the way we expect them to. That’s why you find so many books on dealing with uncertainty and the unexpected. People want them.
We don’t have control over our reality? Shocking news. Do we have a degree of influence over it? I’m not one to answer that question, for what do I know. We can set a stimulating environment that will prone us to act in a specific fashion, we can read infinite books about self-development and spirituality, we can even watch movies about those who challenge the status quo: Steve Jobs, David Goggins, Marcus Aurelius, to name a few favourites. The funny thing is until we throw ourselves into the wolves those cheesy hip-hop motivational quotes are just toxic and do nothing in our favour.
So things are changing. Always changing. Welcome the change, the suffering. For when you open up your arms to suffering, it is no longer labelled as bad. I’m questioning it myself since I laugh at any sequence of unlabeled events. No one has it easier. We suffer in perspective of the dimension of the overall situation we face. That’s probably why people with less tend to be happier.
Some people demand change for validation. Those might be labelled as inconsistent or unstable. But what if their stability is instability itself? So many syndromes and problems for those who look for them. Life is happening and we are not keeping up. So many books, so many experiences, so many people to meet. Things are changing, but so are we if we accept the change and stop wanting everything to be different all the time. As things change, we don’t understand as for life is to be lived forward, but only understood backwards.