Yes, I do recall that I have spoken about change before. Today as I speak about change I believe that I am coming at it from a different angle. Today I will come at change from the eyes of someone else as opposed to me.
How often are we approached with change around us and while we deal with a little anxiety about it for a few seconds, eventually we accept it and move forward not letting it get to us too much? Once we moved forward the change doesn't seem to be too big of a deal but for that moment when it is occurring our heads begin to swim, we look for every reason under the sun to not accept it, and we panic. Once we've moved beyond it we look back and think...psssha..that was no big deal.
What about the people in our lives who haven't been able to move beyond the anxiety and stress? How do we deal with that? Sometime we have individuals that we want to just shake and say....Hey!!!! It's no big deal!!!! In a way, we need to be more compassionate to them. We need to remember the anxiety we may have felt about certain changes in our own life where we held on just a bit longer.
It doesn't mean that we cajole them and baby them. Rather it means that we step back, pull ourselves out of the chaos they are going through and help them move out of the chaos and stress and anxiety. We don't do that by yelling or telling them they are wrong. Rather we work on being patient with them. We give them their time and their space but let them know we are there to help them through this if needed.
The power of change can make or break a person. Change the furniture in a house of a person who has never changed it around and you will see anxiety. Add another person into the mix at work or in your circle of friends and you'll see it too. Today I will be a bit more patient with people who have a hard time with change. Who knows....I may need it at sometime here in the future too.
Yep, last week we moved a marble table to the foot of our bed, since we had no other place to put it. Guess who has to walk around the bed to get to the bathroom at night? Yep, ME. I've got a few bruises, but am starting to get used to it. Change is not good at night, and you forget what you did, because you were asleep. What's that old saying, "If you hear a Bump in the night.........?" (That could be just me).
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