Change in Life

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Change is inevitable in our life as it helps to make our life more interesting, exciting, charming, enjoyable, different which help us to go ahead. Our life isn’t only a bank of boring ideas and run with hour and minutes. We can make it interesting through the change what we have been experiencing. It needs time, resource, labor, partners and so on as the agent for change. If we don’t have above mentioned thing or ideas we can’t move ahead due to the hurdle that comes ahead.

Why is change necessary? It can be a question to different persons in different spots. People have been living with changing time every second. It is inevitable that time has played vital role in our life. A child can’t be same throughout his life. Being parents we expect that our child should be bigger so that we needn’t carry him/her on our back. Or we shouldn’t wash his/her hands, mouth, excreta etc. As a whole we expect that our child should be able to do himself/herself. Thus we have been longing for change but we don’t have realization at all about the change that is going on. We think that it happens all of a sudden. For example, if some of our relatives would meet our children they would say that s/he becomes bigger/taller/younger/knowledgeable etc.

Similarly, we have eaten different things per day. Mostly we don’t prefer to take the things which we have already taken. Our menu is different day by day. If we have to repeat same items, we don’t take it easy. If we use it after two or three days, we have the feeling of change in our life so it’s tasty to us. We call it as ‘mouth-change’ (different taste) in our common language. Similarly, we want to change the way where we have been walking regularly. When we go for jogging or we return home from office, we will like to change the way. We have also changed our dresses per day. Mostly the young people and babies have changed their dress time and again in a day also. In this way change is not only necessary, it’s compulsory to make our life more interesting, exciting, different and so on.

I have returned to my own problem with the colleagues that they have been obstructing me in course of decision making. What I thought to change, I must make them realize time and again. Sometimes I have to defer the decision or to postpone it. After all, the time will support me and the change happens at any cost. The tussle between change and stillness is much interesting, dubious, doubtful, and the break of tradition. The rule of science also proves it in a different way in which it needs energy to change static things into motion.

Similarly, we need money to have something different in our life. I have seen money equal to energy to bring change in our life. The matter always remains debatable due to the energy that we have to instill in our personal life. We have to instill it with money so that we can move ahead. The colleagues are being afraid of instilling money to get change and there is some sort of conflict among us or conflict between stillness and change. However, it takes some more effort for us to implement such programs though late.

I want to bring some change in my school for this we need resource or energy. I proposed it to the colleagues but they have been afraid with the resource. I think to change the habit of my colleagues first. I have to instill their mind first. Unless there is no change in their mind, the change in the institution is not possible. The agent of change should be the human mind first then only other things are possible. We should learn to be changed with the time.

Everything belongs to change in this world. We can have example of various changes in our life. We can find simple example of electronic gadgets. The thing which we buy or use today will be changed after one week or in fortnight time. If we don’t move according to the changing time we will always be back. Those who can’t experience change would remain same in their life. Thus we must have feelings of change in our life to get progression.

Children often blame their parents of being old-fashioned. It is common that parents can’t accept or address the need of their children due to resource constrain. Then parents have to say ‘no’ to their children and they used to call them as ‘old fashioned’. Hence, change and resources are complimentary factors in our life. If we don’t invest in change either effort or money, we can’t get possible result. Due to such problem we will be called ‘old fashioned’.

Here comes the issue of progression. If don’t accept change, we can’t assimilate with progression. Change and progression are interrelated factors. They have to be side by side to get good progression in our life. If we remain in the same place or situation, we can do nothing else in our life. For that we have to move here and there. The poem, Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand makes us realize the reason of moving. He said that we have the reason of moving to keep things whole. Or we want to do something to become whole or perfect in our so we move here and there. We should realize the fact that our life is dynamic and we have to do new things to get new taste of life.

It makes our life more enthusiastic and interesting. We have been seeking happiness in our life which is also possible through change. If we have new things we can experience the thrill of life that instills some more energy. Let’s take an example of our own home. If any new person has come in our home, our little children would take supper or lunch well. The mothers often complain their children haven’t taken anything or they have difficulty of feeding them. If I go to my relatives, I used to feed their babies what they have prepared. They would feel interesting with me as I have given some change in child’s daily house hold chores. So the change is liked by each people either young or old.

It’s a kind of vitamin or mineral that we have to instill in our life. Our psychology also gets such vitamin and mineral like our body. The body would get from different items what we eat, whereas our psychology or mind has got such elements from change. We often go to meet our relatives or some places to refresh our mind with some change. As a corollary, change is necessary and compulsory factor for sustaining our life.