Is change good or bad? Many say people should change, do not just stay where you are. You have to change. Leave the status quo. Break the rules sometimes. Get out of the boundaries. Set a new rule. Play different game than something you have been playing for your whole life. Challenge yourself to do things differently. But are they all good? Are all these ‘campaigns’ about change good for all people? What if someone choose to stay where they are because they feel comfortable? Then there will be a question about leaving your comfort zone. Yeah, people who choose to stay in the comfort zone must be the most boring, un-brave and plain creatures ever created in the world. And I know how it feels to become one of that kind of people, and on the other hand, to become the persistent ’sponsor’ of the change to other. It’s really bad to see people don’t want to move from their chair just because they don’t want to loose their old chair. They don’t know what other options are available for them out there, could be just a bench, or a brand new sophisticated rocking chair. Unless they have the guts to jump out and throw out the chair, they will never know. And it’s difficult to tell someone that their chair is actually start to rotten, and they’ll fall, while they still enjoy that old rotten chair, the smell, the security it provides, the sense of being ‘at home’ with something you’ve already familiar with. Until you ready to let it go, you’ll let it go. Without regret and hard feeling. But yes, it’s hard to ‘agitate the system’, -the term used in the facilitator's training, -when the system always tend to re-establish at its initial state. The word "established", equally to "status quo", is scary for liveable people, but sounds like a song for the ‘comfort zone lover’ (I'm leaning to the former I suppose). But what kind of live is one living, if it’s only in a circle of security, the whole life? Static perhaps. Or stable? Not interested for sure. The anti-dynamic life.. Hope I’m not into it…
*Transferred from old FS blog too, 25Jul08*
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