We think change is hard.

We associate all sorts of unpleasantness and discomfort with it. We moan about the unknown and cry

but we hate change!

when invited to try something new.

We don’t really hate change. And change isn’t really all that hard. It just isn’t “normal” to us.

Try eating at a new restaurant or driving a different way to work. Unless you have deep anxiety disorders, these changes are quite possible.

Change isn’t the hardest thing. Being stagnant is harder.

Dealing with loss and the discomfort that comes from aging and the passage of time. The discomfort that comes from disuse and a lack of hope. The discomfort that comes from disunity and a great lack of courage.

The unchanged life breeds stagnation and bitterness. It is a place of much greater discomfort and unease. It believes that if we just refuse to change anything then we will remain the same. But the laws of nature disprove this hypothesis and our own experience tells us different. Just because you refuse to change doesn’t mean you get to stay the same. Far from it. We all get older. Our bodies and our things stop working the way they used to.

You don’t get a say in whether or not you change, you only get a say in whether it is now or later; whether it is for health or for unhealth.

The hardest truth you can face today isn’t change, its stagnation.