Courage to Change

disclaimer: this entry has no bearing on any circumstances, real or imagined in the world today. it is simply a thought process discovered while going shopping for bananas. literally.

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I had an epiphany today.

Imagine a situation where you can either choose to keep your life as you know it or take a drastic step to change it to something else. Sure it takes courage to make changes in your life. Sure the unknown is scary. But if the status quo is something that is known and familiar, then you really don't need courage to stay in the same spot. It just simply isn't scary.

When one is trying to decide whether to change or not, it means that the status quo is no longer satisfactory, or else a consideration for change would not even exist. And should courage be needed to assert change, that belief presupposes the change is necessary, even desired, if not already in existence.

Which means, one must be in the position of knowing that it is there, to be able to acknowledge the need for courage. So perhaps, making a change is not as scary as one thinks. For one would already know that change is already in current reality. And the only thing that is unsure of, is whether one is willing to recognize its presence.

When you think about countries that go through revolutions, and people who go through gender re-assignments, and the list of circumstances grow on and on, resistance happens when one does not want to recognize the presence of a new reality and the challenges it could bring. But do we need to fear the future? Doesn't change simply mean second chances, renewed possibilities, unimagined opportunities? Or does it mean sacrifices, pain, eternal uncertainty and destruction? Doesn't change feed a need for a renaissance of sorts, a rejuvenation of past practices in the hope of betterment and fulfilment?

I guess the summary for me is this: if one is considering change, chances are, it's already here. So why fear it?

Just a thought.