Is change really constant???
Change is the only constant!!
Adaptibility, dynamic strategies opposed to fixed strategies are the mantras echoed by everyone. Decisions are made taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Ground rule now is not just survival of the fittest, it is survival of the player who sees the next change of this agile world & adapts to it. I can go on, on this but this post is meant to counter this idealogy. Will have to stop advocating this funda here if I have to market my argument better. :)
To begin with, I quote the first few lines of The Brook's song - Alfred Lord Tennyson:
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
Disclaimer: What I have inferred from these lines is personal, may not coincide with what the English literateurs may infer. :)
Over the years we meet different kinds of people, do different kinds of things, face different kinds of situations, that is to say life's like a long race with many hurdles, many cheers girls, tough competitors, weak peers but in the end the race is only with yourself. People around you, situations around you may make you feel you have changed with time, for instance a slow learner takes time to learn new things but if he practices a similar task over & over again several times he will surely do a better job than a sharper person who is new to this task. This doesnt mean the former is more proficient, he is inherently slow & will remain slow, this may not show up in his routine work which he has excelled, but if given a new task he surely will take time to catch up & thats when its proven that he hasnt CHANGED. Also in a not so competitive environment one may fair decently well & assume he/she has improved, but only when he enters a more competitive environment does he realise that it is not he/she who has changed rather its the situations that are different have made him/her feel the change. Everyone has their own weaknesses, we try to consistantly try to improve ourselves, and most of the times can see & feel marked changes in our selves. But in times of crisis we inadvertantly handle the situation in the same way showing up our weakness, its as if these situations bluntly prove that we are essentially the same & have'nt changed a bit, no improvement whatsoever.
This is true even in case of relationships, you either like a person or you dont, no matter how much time you spend or how much interaction you have, your relationship may seem to deepen or weather away with time, but deep within the relationship doesnt CHANGE it remains the same, you either like the person or dont.
Yet another example to prove this would be the stock market, where the prices of a stock may gyrate in both directions by huge margins, one day it may be the star performer seeming like a highly worthy stock, the very next moment it may volte-face to be in a worthless position. But in long term the worth of the stock is basically constant, doesnt CHANGE. (referring to the worth of the stock & not the price).
So do you still believe change is indeed constant???
Adaptibility, dynamic strategies opposed to fixed strategies are the mantras echoed by everyone. Decisions are made taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Ground rule now is not just survival of the fittest, it is survival of the player who sees the next change of this agile world & adapts to it. I can go on, on this but this post is meant to counter this idealogy. Will have to stop advocating this funda here if I have to market my argument better. :)
To begin with, I quote the first few lines of The Brook's song - Alfred Lord Tennyson:
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
Disclaimer: What I have inferred from these lines is personal, may not coincide with what the English literateurs may infer. :)
Over the years we meet different kinds of people, do different kinds of things, face different kinds of situations, that is to say life's like a long race with many hurdles, many cheers girls, tough competitors, weak peers but in the end the race is only with yourself. People around you, situations around you may make you feel you have changed with time, for instance a slow learner takes time to learn new things but if he practices a similar task over & over again several times he will surely do a better job than a sharper person who is new to this task. This doesnt mean the former is more proficient, he is inherently slow & will remain slow, this may not show up in his routine work which he has excelled, but if given a new task he surely will take time to catch up & thats when its proven that he hasnt CHANGED. Also in a not so competitive environment one may fair decently well & assume he/she has improved, but only when he enters a more competitive environment does he realise that it is not he/she who has changed rather its the situations that are different have made him/her feel the change. Everyone has their own weaknesses, we try to consistantly try to improve ourselves, and most of the times can see & feel marked changes in our selves. But in times of crisis we inadvertantly handle the situation in the same way showing up our weakness, its as if these situations bluntly prove that we are essentially the same & have'nt changed a bit, no improvement whatsoever.
This is true even in case of relationships, you either like a person or you dont, no matter how much time you spend or how much interaction you have, your relationship may seem to deepen or weather away with time, but deep within the relationship doesnt CHANGE it remains the same, you either like the person or dont.
Yet another example to prove this would be the stock market, where the prices of a stock may gyrate in both directions by huge margins, one day it may be the star performer seeming like a highly worthy stock, the very next moment it may volte-face to be in a worthless position. But in long term the worth of the stock is basically constant, doesnt CHANGE. (referring to the worth of the stock & not the price).
So do you still believe change is indeed constant???
posted by Sweta at
4:40 AM
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