Sometimes I think I am surrounded by people who embrace change, but if they do they do it “full-blown“. A “full-blown” change in my eyes represents a change that is accepted and taken into account promptly, swiftly, without asking questions and as the expression imposes: at once. To accept change and to even recognize it takes years and years for many people to come to terms with; some people need a lifetime. If I was to say that change occurs naturally and that in some cases one cannot influence what is happening; some people see it as self-explanatory. However some other people would disagree as say that one should “[b]e the change that you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi). Change is unpredictable, harsh, sudden, unexpected, easy, hard, fair, unfair, good, bad, mysterious, lively, thundering, voiceless, predictable, confronting and much more. Change can be regarded as a person: It comes and goes, grants us a bright future, surprises us with its variability, but can also destroy and take away everything up until your last breath. So how comes that people hate embracing change all the time? Change doesn’t always appear on purpose to be evil and damage you psychologically, even though some, if not everyone, would argue that there are people resembling this trend: devilish people.

Although we all know these people exist for a fact, and change is not a real person but can be seen as a personification in any shape or form, we still regard change in the same way as evil people; but why? What is it that makes change so aggressive and not kind and “good for a change”? Well, let me solve this enigma, or at least I will try to make it clear without going into psychology and different types of people on this planet labelling them with vulgar terminology, and therefore make all humans sound like animals and objects. One of the possible causes for this strange occurrence is that any person on this planet has doubts about themselves, their decisions, possible regrets piled up like antique books in a small and hidden bookshop around the corner, fear of constant failure, preconceptions of life and its meaning, judgement of people around us and so on and so forth. Tadaaa, enigma is solved right there for you. No, I was joking. Nothing is solved here I just listed some of our everyday struggles as the most intelligent beings on this planet earth therefore it doesn’t mean I have solved anything. Our real problem is habit and attachment. Above all of these listed factors affecting our actions and emotions on a daily basis, we are inclined to get too clingy with our loved ones and pretty much used to everything. It could be anything: a silly habit or a meaningless movement or sound, anything. We are victims of our own details and imaginations. We have helped creating certain details of our lives and we are subconsciously and consciously afraid of losing those. Change means embracing something new, something else, something unknown, dark and mysterious. See, even I just used the word “dark” without thinking about it. Yes, so change is really an event which happens in a way that one has either never experienced it before or is experiencing it all over again. Even if this particular change has been experienced before, it will still feel different compared to the previous time; as well all know: Nothing is ever the same like it used to be.

Picking up on my first sentence, people surrounding me seem to pick up changes as they breathe, literally. Especially the young generations. I am talking about 18-28 year olds, just get along with whatever comes their way. They take it, swallow it, digest it in a second, as we speak right now, and all of a sudden everything looks completely different. They seem to ignore the situation which was the case before change came along and turned someone’s world upside down. But the odd anomaly, which actually is not an anomaly anymore, is that the youngsters are fully ignorant of the consequences and therefore  behave in a laid-back and easy-going manner about it. Maybe older people or people who suffer from change in general should learn from the younger generations of embracing change no matter of how responsibilities affect us. I mean, at the end of the day, if Mr. or Mrs. Change comes along and does NOT ask for your contribution or permission to change your life, then you will have to deal with it as it is and not moan or complain and think: Oh, why me? Why now? Why not then? Why this? Well, there is definitely no satisfying answer to that.