Change is scary. No change is scary too.Change is scary because it is a leap into the unknown. It is a gamble, or at best a calculated risk, of making the outcome of the change better than your status quo. This is simple to understand.
What is harder to appreciate is that no change is scary too because it is just an illusion. There is no way we can remain unchanged when we are growing older by the second. Yes, time. Time is the catalyst and the agent of change. Time, the evil who walks by unnoticed, too cunning to be caught, then creeps up to you unknowingly to deliver a nasty surprise. It marches on methodologically and stoically, doing its work, whether facing joy or sorrow, almost robotic, but better, because it never NEVER breaks down.
No change is scary because others change. People leave and new people come. I can be the obstinate old lady who refuses to budge but can I say nothing has changed when the people I held on dearly to has already moved on? Can I say status quo remains when what was familiar is already a vestige of the past?
Then, it seems as though the debate between change and no change is moot. It is a case of voluntary change and involuntary change. And we know that anything that is involuntary is bad because it indicates unwillingness and powerlessness. Therefore the only way to prevent involuntary change is to do the opposite - voluntary change. Since voluntary change is good for us, then it is irrational to fear change. Why should we fear anything good?
Fine, no fear. But what change? This, or that? Or that? What about the RESULT of the change? I don't want to be the one responsible for my own downfall. But then again, how can I let anyone else bring about my downfall? No, no. If I were to collapse, it can only be because of me. Me and my weakness(es). So any change, that brings about undesirable results, can only be blamed on... ... me?
Perhaps there are some things which insignificant minions like us human beings are never meant to figure out. A curse of ignorance that was cast when Eve bit the apple that relegates us to a lifetime of searching.
