Recognize and Embrace How Change Makes Rather than Takes Everything?
What change makes is literally everything.
There is only one constant in the entire Universe. Change.
Change will always happen. Sometimes it is so glacially slow and microscopically small that it seems not to be happening. Other times it’s cataclysmic, sudden, and ginormous. Either way – change is. It’s constant, unstoppable, and ineffable.
Without change – nothing we know would be.
In the words of Marcus Aurelius,
“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature.”
In other words – without change, we wouldn’t be. What change makes is literally everything – tangible or intangible.
Every single human being on Earth exists because of change. The sperm and the ovum merged and changed, grew, and evolved into you and me. Without that change, we’d not be.
The screen you read these words on is made of things that were changed. The components that went into the circuit board, power supply, casing, and all else were changed to create it.
Change makes everything that is, was, or ever will be.
So why are we so terrified of it?
Why do we fear change?
I think there are multiple reasons why we fear change as we do. It’s a psychological problem that lacks a one-size-fits-all answer. But I believe that I can reasonably share a general idea for why.
Modern humankind has evolved (yes, changed) a lot in the last century. We are better interconnected, more capable of learning anything we desire to, and have automated so many aspects of our world that a relative few can produce goods for the many.
That’s shifted most of our first-world society from makers to servicers. All labor industries require a small number of people to function. Meanwhile, service industries are all about people.
But doing service doesn’t create anything. Hence, a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction – due to lack of product – doesn’t exist.
Meanwhile, the makers still making things often see the majority service-industry people as takers. It doesn’t help that numerous leaders in and out of the production industries use this notion to weaponize fear to disempower those workers while empowering themselves and a chosen few.
Still with me? Okay, so this shift in humankind was unbelievably swift. Just look back 100 years and you will see that we’ve changed far more than any prior century. That, in turn, has been unsettling.
And it’s not slowing down. The first computer I had just 37 years ago was exponentially less capable than my iPhone.
So much change so swiftly is terrifying because it threatens to abandon, leave people behind, and thus cause untold harm. And that, I believe, is why we fear change as we do. Nothing is certain because change makes new things tangible and intangible seemingly faster than the speed of light.
This gets abused by those who foment our fear-based society to benefit only a chosen few.
Shifting perspective to recognize how change makes rather than takes
It is not possible to make anyone do anything. We can inspire, suggest, coerce, cajole, help, and otherwise put effort into this – but we can’t make another person do something they do not choose to do.
Thus, shifting perspective on a global scale to recognize how change makes rather than takes is not possible. Or rather – not possible en masse.
But you and I can choose to recognize and work with how change makes everything.
I am not somehow above this. Change scares me, too. Even recognizing that it’s inevitable, constant, and the reason that anything and everything is – it still unsettles me.
Yet because I recognize this – I actively work to more readily embrace change. It is because of what change makes that I am the person I am today, and capable of learning from my past and choosing better for my future in the present.
Nobody but you can choose to recognize and embrace how change makes rather than takes. But because it’s the only constant in the Universe – working to do so can help you find and/or create more peace.
Because we desire, deep down, to create tangible things – and much of change is intangible – we can learn to see the tangible within the intangible. For example – when people are content rather than discontent, how an act of kindness can light someone up, and how someone empowered can move mountains right before our eyes.
When all is said and done – change makes everything.
Change makes life, the Universe, and everything
The realization of this truth hit me like a ton of bricks. I had never considered that change was literally the creator of everything in life.
The food we eat? Whether picked off a tree or baked in an oven – it was changed to become the apple or the apple pie. The clothes we wear? The material they are made of was created and then changed into the forms we place on our bodies. The air we breathe? The molecules of oxygen were changed via photosynthesis.
Change makes everything – literally, everything. When you get right down to it and think about it in this way – that’s incredible.
Also – it’s not so scary. Without change, we would not be. Neither would anyone nor anything else in the entire cosmos.
Change makes it all. That’s a rather exciting, enticing notion. Recognizing this, I believe, can help demystify change and take away much of its fearsomeness.
And when it comes to ourselves – mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually – what change makes can be guided, if not outright controlled, by us. How empowering a notion is that?
When you are not afraid of change and being its victim and suffering because of it – you gain insight and empowerment. Choosing this lessens the impact of our fear-based society and opens us to doing, finding, being, having, and creating better. When we begin to do that for ourselves it can impact, influence, and improve all.
And that is how we can shift the global perspective. Individually, one person at a time.
Do you see how there is nothing to fear from change because change makes everything?
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