Dealing With Change
Created By Raina G On 14 June, 2009
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Added By Raina G On June 14, 2009, 12:00 am
Country: india
There was one thing I thought I was certain about in life and that was that I didn't want to leave the country and live abroad. I love traveling and seeing new places, but leaving India for foreign shores, semi-permanently was something I never saw myself doing. Now thanks to the call of love, here I am thousands of miles away in another continent!
Moving to another country brought out a lot of things in me, things which I hadn’t expected or probably repressed. Sometimes I look out the window and what do I see? A new city, strange and unexplored; a dream being lived differently. Sometimes it’s loneliness and sometimes it’s excitement at the potential to meet interesting new minds and live new experiences. It's almost self-indulgent to dwell on this onslaught of emotions because my life is hardly trail-blazing, but emotions and thoughts seem to pour out of me.
Now suddenly my choices need to be different, there are different kinds of guidelines and different aspirations to discover. Re-charting the many plans for your life can be so much more difficult when you do them knowingly, while changes you simply let happen manage to help you float along, because you can pretend that the mistakes weren't really your fault. The direction of my career, my responsibilities and simple things like what to do in my free time, seemed to have a whole new dimension! Well, one thing I do know is that I am finally learning to be a true adult, one responsible for my life and my happiness. And because I can’t run to my friends for every little upset, I am beginning to figure out how to weed out genuine concerns among all the little ones that do nothing except hold me back! And since it is the basis of my life here, I am finally appreciating the peace and contentment a happy and healthy relationship adds to your life. Change is a far less scary word now.
Food for thought ~ Is a change, a move really all that scary or just a more tangible excuse to let your flaws get the better of you? It’s strange how we resist when someone tries to hold us back, but when it comes to a self-imposed imprisonment we are so much more forgiving.
Moving to another country brought out a lot of things in me, things which I hadn’t expected or probably repressed. Sometimes I look out the window and what do I see? A new city, strange and unexplored; a dream being lived differently. Sometimes it’s loneliness and sometimes it’s excitement at the potential to meet interesting new minds and live new experiences. It's almost self-indulgent to dwell on this onslaught of emotions because my life is hardly trail-blazing, but emotions and thoughts seem to pour out of me.
Now suddenly my choices need to be different, there are different kinds of guidelines and different aspirations to discover. Re-charting the many plans for your life can be so much more difficult when you do them knowingly, while changes you simply let happen manage to help you float along, because you can pretend that the mistakes weren't really your fault. The direction of my career, my responsibilities and simple things like what to do in my free time, seemed to have a whole new dimension! Well, one thing I do know is that I am finally learning to be a true adult, one responsible for my life and my happiness. And because I can’t run to my friends for every little upset, I am beginning to figure out how to weed out genuine concerns among all the little ones that do nothing except hold me back! And since it is the basis of my life here, I am finally appreciating the peace and contentment a happy and healthy relationship adds to your life. Change is a far less scary word now.
Food for thought ~ Is a change, a move really all that scary or just a more tangible excuse to let your flaws get the better of you? It’s strange how we resist when someone tries to hold us back, but when it comes to a self-imposed imprisonment we are so much more forgiving.