Change

Changes are difficult. Transition means adjustment. Adjustment brings pain.

All changes are difficult. Nobody really likes change because of the upheaval that often accompanies it. Sometimes we recalibrate the change and face it with excitement and anticipation. Some people shy away from anything that smacks of change while others run headlong into it. 

Moshe Dayan once famously said, “If I had to choose between peace without Sharm-al-Sheihk (a beautiful port city that now belongs to Egypt) and Sharm-al-Sheikh without peace; I would choose Sharm-al-Sheikh.”   Yet, he was one of the Israeli leaders who willingly traded the city for the promise of peace.

The moral of the story could be that peace is worth any price. Maybe so, maybe not. The moral of the story is that change begets change. Knee-jerk reactions are not befitting of mature human beings. Yet they are at the hallmark of most people.

The human spirit is tested by its ability to work for and with change, not against it.