Stress makes us believe that sorrow will never end but to the wonder of all and seemingly by a law divine, things change, nothing not even the deepest melancholy lasts forever, and that is when you realise that times of trouble can be like a rain storm, on an otherwise summers day everything seems brighter and more colourful once it has passed. Ostler wrote “Everywhere the old order changes, and happy those who change with it”.
We are constantly making decisions and choices based on experience, and that leads us to dwell on how it is, instead of focussing on how it can be. Changing anything is characteristically uncertain; it generates conflict and divides opinion, changing things requires energy, motivation and support. Therefore resistance to change is natural and inevitable.
Even if you haven’t the will to change things, change will happen, even in the coldest winter of your deepest despair, the snow will melt and spring will appear, and whenever we overcome adversity learning takes place, we grow a little. Life becomes bearable again, we have learnt how to cope and we will be able to move forward.
“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn”. Toffler 2001