Friday, November 10, 2006

Anxiety of Displacement

Changes are hard. Changes are slow to be made. I think its part of our humanity, that resistance would be felt to changes although the results should be benefiacial. Its like learning physics all over again, a mass need to overcome its own inertia before it could move.

And once the changes have been made, we would settle back within our comfort zone. A quick google shows that:

The Comfort Zone is our living, work, and social environments that we have grown accustom too. It determines the type of friends we make or people we associate with. It determines a life style we accept or reject.

Hence to overcome the resistance to change is hard and once we settle in the comfort zone, it would be hard to make us change again.

It has been like that for me yesterday. Everything was fine and dandy, I was adjusting well to the the changes at the new workplace when the news broke. It has always been at the back of our minds that these changes would come irregardless, but when the reality hits us, no amount of preparation or rehersal could make us ready for it. It was like a fire drill, you know what to do and where to go, but when there was real fire and smoke, you lose direction.

So after consultation with friends and those close to me, I would accept the fact that the changes are beyond my control and I would have to take it head on. I know that I have the resilience to adapt to new environment, only in this situation it would be hard as the last move was only a few months ago. So what I would do is to try to manage the change and if things didn't work out, alternative action has to be taken.

C'est la vie.

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