The choice in change

There is a day when we wake up in the morning and we wonder: Again the same routine?
 
Again the same associations which don’t fulfill us anymore? Again to the same work which doesn’t allow us to evolve? This is the morning when it seems difficult to get up, when you don’t have anything special to look forward to. This morning is the “bell” ringing inside you and asking you for a change, a new start.
 
Most of us enjoy living in our comfort zones which we built with so much effort. It is the comfort zone that you have exactly planned your next steps with caution and all your every-day changes. But what happens when you can’t breathe in this zone and “dissatisfaction” comes up? When you can’t bear the same old again and again? It is time to get out of your comfort zone and you start living again. What do you have to change? Everything! Anything that doesn’t satisfy you, doesn’t fulfill you and isn’t pleasant to you anymore.
 
There are some people in our lives, who we wouldn’t change for emotional reasons. These are friendships or any kind of relationships which don’t fulfill us anymore, don’texcite us and make us feel that there is nothing left to say. However these relationships just exist, while they aresuperficial and no longer make us feel well, or make us have fun, and sometimes they may even become intrusive and toxic.
 
Why are they still there? Perhaps because we are afraid to invest on something new. The fear of meeting new people and building something from scratch is reasonable, but the obsession to situations and relationships which are over is an obstacle to tranquility, joy and happiness.
 
Good friends, the calmness of associations, the laughs and the nice conversations are result of our choices. If our old associations are shallowing this means that we have to set new foundations in our already established relationships or to completely change them and don’t persist on the old ones because they makes us feel secure.
 
A change in our relationships seems easier than a change in our job. When we are 18 we must know what we will do for the rest of our lives, and this of course has to be a job that will contribute to our future with security and money. The “must” and the “security” that we have set as the ultimate goal when choosing our profession makes us abandon our dreams. It was that dream of becoming an actor or a writer that collapsed because in these professional areas you wouldn’t have a stable income. And now what? And now you are working for a job that you’ve become a slave to, that ruins you psychologically, a job that make you bury your own creativity as more and more days pass by. Changing jobs is not an easy thing, but it is an important investment because when you are passionate about something you put your soul to it, you give everything you got, you become the better version of yourself. We are not robots to perform automatized processes, we have a vision and a soul that wants to create.
 
I love a phrase very much is Scarlet’s words from “Gone with the wind”:
“After all, tomorrow is a new day” Yes it is. It is a day to change whatever doesn’t make you happy, whatever makes you feel tired and doesn’t fit you anymore. Choose the change, maybe in the beginning it willrock your boat a bit too hard but then it will fill you with joy and strength.
 

Translation: Agni Gkoutziamani

Review: Niki Saridaki

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