What is your opinion on this state? Does it give you a nice, warm, safe feeling, that all’s well with the world? Or does it give you a bad taste – a sense of sameness, defined as boring? Do the words make you long for change, for something new, different? Perhaps, though, it gives a feeling of knowing – stable, undemanding, predictable? Regardless, this word typically invokes a position on opposite ends of this continuum. And… to add a bit of spice, regardless of your preference, are things ever the way they seem?
What should happen is that the status quo should be a foundation and springboard; the basis for growth, not escape, not entrenchment. Many times it only polarizes people and positions. However, our first step should always be to make certain that things actually are what they seem and that we know what this means. We are a creation that tends to run off on the basis of assumption rather than confirming ‘reality’, so this truly is critical… especially if wrong.
Presupposing you know or take the time to discover ‘the way things are’… what would it cost to you to change things? And what does it cost you to maintain your current situation? Have you taken the time to consider this? Or are you into ‘don’t rock the boat’ and ‘if I don’t know then I can’t be held accountable’? Then again, whenever has that reasoning worked?
I’m not dissing the way things are. I’m suggesting that this be re-examined in terms of its validity in your life. These should be times of regrouping, of refreshing, of reassessing one’s values, resources, goals, etc. and utilizing this as a basis to grow. Humans weren’t created to become stagnant or to accept that there’s only one way. Where would we be without the Edison’s, Marconi’s, Ford’s, Wright’s? What about the explorers and thinkers, the Galileo’s, Einsteins, and Michelangelo’s.
I would hope you would challenge yourself to look at the way things are in your life and become that Edison or Galileo or Agatha Christie in your world. You really are more than you think you can be. But you’ll never attain that if you hide in the way things are. Simply because it’s always been this way doesn’t necessarily mean it has to continue.
