Our choices in life are not just passive acceptance or flat resistance. We can also use analysis, what Socrates called for in his statement "The unexamined life is not worth living." When we use our capacities to wonder, to speculate, to question, to use our curiosity, we get interesting and provocative results.
Plus, we can throw in a little respect for time. Internal change is working in us, on us and around us all the time. It may just take a decade to see it and even then, pictures and journals may be needed. After we see change, we have our first round of reaction, usually negative: oh, no, overcrowding! Advertising for stuff I don't need! Deterioration!
After a little reflection and a little intense questioning, we find that some aspects of the change are positive and hopeful. Beyond that, we realize that we have actually achieved some things of worth. Also, we have benefited from some very good breaks. Among other things, we have had experiences of not liking a person, a food, some art or tv but coming, over time, to develop a fondness or maybe even a reliance on that same person or food or art or device. Sometimes, we are fickle but sometimes, it just takes a while to learn the good side, or the use, or the way to fit a change into our lives.
There is a difference between acquiescence and learning to benefit from changes. We can make use of both, adjusting to a new arrangement and actually employing new tools, engaging with gusto in new activities, seeing with new eyes, living with new understanding
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Bill
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