Changes

Beginning from scratch is hard.

Changing is harder.

When you’ve worked towards one goal for a lifetime, a decade or even just a few years, that involvement, that work, feels like it becomes a part of your person. A piece of your soul that you’ve spent energy manifesting, a part of your personality. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t actually become a fragment of who you are, but it does change you.

That change, that becoming is sometimes impossible to separate from. Even when it becomes undesirable, unhealthy, uninteresting or just no longer suits your needs, the familiarity makes it feel impossible to free yourself from.

On this eve of a major life change for me, I reminisce on why I entered the type of work I did. I fell into it and it became me and I it. And though my role has changed much over the last decade plus, the biggest virtues of my job have remained the same.

To change careers, life paths, relationships or anything major is not something one should take lightly, especially when one has dedicated time, energy, and in my case, physical, mental and emotional burdens for a long time.

Change is a serious matter. But it’s also an important one. Comfort does not engage creativity and it does not allow us to flourish. Arduousness ignites ingenuity.

So, my friends, if what you are doing does not suit you, if it does not lead you down a path that betters you, if your situation at current is not engaging you to your fullest abilities, change.

Sometimes change doesn’t work, oh well! Perhaps time apart from your present status will reignite a long dwindled flame.

Or, maybe, your change will reignite you.