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January 05, 2004

Happy "New" Year, 2004

Well, it's the new year, yet so little is new about it. It's still waking up early to go to work, still the same old office with no windows, the same problem with the computers, the same old same stuff. The same.

But as I think about it, there is a certain charm to having things the same. As the idiom goes, "familiarity breeds comfort." (Of course there's Mark Twain's clever variation.) With this familiarity comfort level, stress levels are reduced and we are then able to institute changes on our own time, pace and modus operandi.

The problem with instituting our own changes is many-fold however. We must first see the need for change, then establish the method(s) for change, and finally we need to actually make those changes. While this may be easy for small things (like digging up old classroom knowledge on how to read a new clock), it's not so simple for massive life-affecting alterations.

There is an incredible amount of work that goes into making huge life-changing choices and seeing them through, and I would argue that a major part of such is actually accepting that things have to be or are going to be different. Without that realization, one cannot whole-heartedly put themselves through the process of establishing themselves as a significantly (even if only internally) different person.

Ultimately, it's oneself that must accept the change before it can truely happen.

This all sounds reasonable enough, so what's my point? Essentially, changing oneself or one's environment is the same process no matter the gravity of the alteration; the perceived difference is merely that invisible line where we become unsure as to whether we can accept being different or living in a different space.

So if it's a New Year, what are you really going to do to make it new?

Posted at January 5, 2004 08:20 AM | Rants and Opinions

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