Change requires sacrifice
A dear friend told me “change requires sacrifice” today – it’s a spin on beauty requires sacrifice, which she overheard a mother telling her young daughter who was whining about too tight shoes (yikes!). But who likes change? No one. I mean some thrive on change and some force change to happen, but change is always disruptive (and I don’t use disruptive as a pejorative term). The thing is I got two calls today – one from a source I have spoken with for ten years who left the company she has worked at for 23 years after one reorg too many. She basically downloaded in a one hour conversation the highs and lows of her tenure and also conveyed the thrill, fear and excitement of the new. I went about my day and then got another call – this one an SOS from a dear friend – having tried to quit her job earlier this year and being convinced to stay on she was confronted with a new situation that would not stand and she needed to know, or needed to hear, that it was okay to feel that way and to take action.
Who likes change? Nobody, really. Change is the unknown. But remember the meaning of life, the meaning of life is not to be comfortable, it is to live it and life is nothing but enormous changes at the last minute to quote a Grace Paley title.