Change

A Chapter by Deepika

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but building the new --Socrates

From infant to toddler, sequenced by childhood, adolescence up till death, a human witnesses several transformations not merely physical but mental, emotional , social and moral. Perhaps not all the phases of growth are welcome by most, but they are rather inevitable. And it’s at the transitional phases most of us stumble where Newton’s law of inertia celebrates its triumph. We find it too sweet to just leave behind our bygone notorious childhood where we successfully deceived the shop keeper and commemorated on those extra toffees or find it too hard to overcome that bummer adolescence where we tussled hard to get past a bad breakup. Change is not refrained to a person alone, but we label the change involving mass as a revolution! Significance of change is not as simple as mugging up those history lessons on various civilizations. Not to forget, it’s the need to ‘change’ that has augmented the evolution tree with the powerful concept of Homo sapiens apparently from the primitive Apes.

Changes that are responsible for personal growth demands a person’s will power while those changes like that of civilizations are intimately associated with social-political-economic factors along with the primary factor being the ‘desire to change’. Nothing ventured, nothing gained says it all " the basic requirement to get something is to break the routine and voyage towards the desires. While certain incidents could change Buddha’s mind compelling him to sacrifice all worldly pleasures and adding pages to history by his achievements then on, a basic desire to lead an independent life gave birth to many revolutions in the form of struggles.

The capacity to adapt has become important to sustain. In the name of upgradation we often tend to vest our hard earned money over those changing technologies to get few extra features and have upper hand over peers.

As we know if nothing ever changed there would b no butterflies. Changes in most cases can make our situation better than before, provided our endurance is strong enough to wait and our efforts are hard enough for the fruitful results. Say an overpass project may block the road for several weeks and cause discomfort, but when completed we might prefer that new route. Changes good or bad are accompanied by discomforts and drawbacks. Yet its success lies in opting for one and looking forward for a better future!

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