On… Change

We call it a “comfort zone,” but comfort is rarely what’s actually living there. More often, it’s familiarity. And familiarity is not the same thing as peace. Change asks us to risk embarrassment. Risk failure. Risk loneliness. Risk becoming someone we have never been before. Risk is frightening. Sometimes the old life may not even be good for us anymore, yet we still cling to it — because at least it is recognizable. A person can remain stuck for years simply because familiarity feels safer than uncertainty. But the spirit does not grow in stagnant water.

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On… Our desire to control life

Our nature is that we tend to move towards the things that we think will bring us enjoyment, while simultaneously moving away from things that bring us pain. Sometimes in doing this process, we move towards temporary happiness. Once I get that new TV, computer, lover, etc – I will be happy. Yet none of these things that we may believe will bring us lasting happiness ever do, because: people change, things break, people leave us (and die), and life often craps on us (seemingly). Further, sometimes the very things that we think will bring us happiness, end up bringing us pain.

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