Changing the way we change: Catching up with our metamorphosing world.

Changing the way we change: Catching up with our metamorphosing world.

Ashley Dobia Mwanza

We are living very confusing and frustrating lives nowadays. All over the world, neither governments nor individuals seem to have a clue what will happen next. More often than ever, no one is certain what can be done and what cannot. You never know where you will be tomorrow or what will be available to you, that is just how the world has become, you never know what to expect, in its own right the world has become so volatile. Yes, the norms remain too, but it’s the unknown that scares most of us. Our world is metamorphosing.

The world we live in is hastily changing before our very own eyes yet many of us are blinded by the things around us that have been designed to do exactly that, and that has got to stop.

For thousands of years the human race has survived and in certain eras thrived while living in harmony with the world, when did we decide that industry, money and power were going to be the most important things in life? We as a species need to remember what is important in life and really start appreciating the things that we have for far too long taken for granted. We need to regain our morality and turn this world into the ‘utopia’ it should be, the dystopia has to stop, starting with ourselves.

Nothing is impossible and nothing is easy, but we ought to try. We all have the ability and the intelligence to do anything. We just don't have the WILL to do it. Did anyone think that a machine like the computer would be invented? or for that matter any other invention or discovery. At that time (meaning in the past) no one believed that those inventors or discoverers would do anything worthwhile, but they made their own dreams a reality through hard work and perseverance, they are solid proof to support the statement "Nothing is impossible". "Nothing is easy" this statement does have a ring of truth in it. No matter what you do you will always have to face and overcome obstacles. Though they may be in different forms.

We know that navigating successfully in a world that is changing as fast as ours can be tricky. In fact, if we allow it to overwhelm us, change can feel extremely traumatic and utterly exasperating. If we’re smart, however, we’ve learned that although we can’t alter the fact of constant change, we can learn to manage our response to it.

There is no going back to the way things were. Both our society and the economies are remarkably different from the way they used to be. The computer revolution has been changing the way we work and the way we form and conduct personal relationships. Indeed, it has been changing the way we live. Today preparing for the future means preparing for constant change. “After all, what good is a head crammed full of facts if those facts will become obsolete in a few short years? At a time of change, less is more. Won't the people who can keep up with the speed of progress be the ones who will get ahead?” said Martin Mak. Learning to adapt will prove far more useful than having concrete set of facts. The words of Victor Frankl then begin to make sense “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

To survive in a world that is ever changing, we need a mindset that is adaptable to change. Some of us at the mention of change we fret. But, changing our attitude about change is one of the best tools we can amass. We should look for opportunities in every change in our lives and our world. Rather than digging in our heels and resisting change, let us allow ourselves to flow with it and see where it takes us. After all its constant, so we cannot avoid it. “Our only security is our ability to change”, John Lilly.