Moving on is never an easy thing to consider, from relationships to jobs people fear change like 6 year old fears cooties. There is a level of comfort and contentment in what is known, it covers and shrouds us like a knitted wool doona from great aunt Gertrude - giving both warmth and an faint oder of old people.
Consider though if no one sought change what that would mean. Mankind would of never gone to the moon - they'd be at home, watching re-runs of the Bill. The pyramids wouldn't of been built, instead the deserts of Egypt would be littered with golden coffins encased in ancient tin shanties. If not for Eratosthenes the world would still be flat. Everest would be really not that interesting. The Dodo might still be around - OK bad example there, but the point remains.
Darwinism tells us 2 things, 1. Rednecks like to keep their loaded weapons with safety's off down the front of their pants and 2. Unless you Change/Evolve you die. From the moment of birth you are constantly growing and adapting to your surroundings. A mastery of the concept of Gravity helps you walk. Basic engineering concepts help you realise that with a stool you can reach the cookies on the top shelf. And so on and so forth, every discovery ever made was herded on by a concept of change and building on what is known which was ushered from the last change.
But humans are suspicious of change fearing the electrodes conveniently hidden on the seemingly free blueberry muffin. What is known is always safer then what is not, many a frog who has found themselves a big black piece of ground with odd white dashes up the middle of it will atest to that. Despite this when it comes to change there is but one thing to consider, to quote the Clash, "Should I stay or Should I go".
The grass is always greener, the pot of gold always bigger or the strippers are always cheaper on the other side (depending on which afterschool special you watched). Fortune favours the bold so ask yourself, do you feel lucky.
Andy, a man who hopes that fortune also favours the foolish.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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