“Change is here to stay”
A quote I heard someone say again recently. (Or another one that I saw on the internet that I quite liked: “Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine”.)
From a personal perspective, I feel like a lot’s changed recently. I’ve moved home, city and work location. And while I can find excitement in something new, ultimately I like familiarity, so change is never easy. (Although I am getting better at it!)
The world is fast moving these days and people cope with it differently:
“Everything changes but you”
Take That – holding on to a person in a time of change.
“Ain’t it crazy how you think,
You’ve got your whole life planned,
Just to find that it was never ever,
In your hand,
Change”
Sugababes – accepting that we can’t always control everything around us.
“(Ch-ch-changes),
Just gonna have to be a different man,
Time may change me,
But I can’t trace time”
David Bowie – adapting to the changes around us.
So I think just as we adapt as a business to economic change, I think we have to learn to adapt our personal lives to the change around us, economical or otherwise. (As I’ve noticed many people starting to bring lunch to work rather than going out to buy something.)
But rather than just adapting to a changeable world you can even take it one step further. Why not BE a world changer? As the MJ lyrics (below) suggest that you’ll have no doubt heard on the radio a few times recently, try taking a look in the mirror and seeing what you can do to affect the world around you in the context you’re in. Because maybe it will be individuals making little decisions to see what they can do to positively impact the people in their communities (as well as those further afield) that will start to actually “heal the world”.
“I’m gonna make a change,
For once in my life,
It’s gonna feel real good,
Gonna make a difference,
Gonna make it right”
Michael Jackson
