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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
I changed my personal message on MSN to 'it's time to get used to change, deb' and Cherie sent me a message saying 'nice nick! the entire thing is an oxymoron!'. I wondered why she said that until I looked up the meaning of 'Oxymoron':
Immediately I understood what she was trying to tell me. How does one get used to change? Change is change, and change is always changing. One can never get used to change, and in fact, one has to instead, accept change. Why can some people accept change and move on so easily? Is it because they already know that they have to accept change, lest they fall behind, and remain stagnant in their life? What's the difference between these 2 set of sentences?
Crux: I'll just have to get used to change and try to move on.
Cruz: I'll just have to accept change, and move on.
Does the word 'try' imply that Crux is not willing to embrace/accept change? Or does it just mean that Crux does not have a real revelation about what 'change' is? What separates Crux from Cruz? A different attitude? A different mindset? What is it?
Why do some people's life remain forever stagnant? Is is because they're so comfortable at where they are that stepping out of that comfort will 'break' them? What stops them from stepping out? A lack of motivation/passion? A lack of purpose/vision? A lack of a goal? Fear of failing? Fear of falling? Fear of taking risks? Laziness? Inability to take up challenges? Or is inertia at work here? Where we'll only move when an external force is acted upon us, if not, we'll just remain where we are?
"As long as you are not progressing somewhere, you know you are stagnating." When things get too comfortable for us, will we step out of the comfort zone and do something, or will we continue to remain in the comfort of the comfort zone? What will you choose? An active, meaningful life? Or a mundane, meaningless life? Then again, who said an active life is meaningful and a mundane life, meaningless?
"A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined."
Immediately I understood what she was trying to tell me. How does one get used to change? Change is change, and change is always changing. One can never get used to change, and in fact, one has to instead, accept change. Why can some people accept change and move on so easily? Is it because they already know that they have to accept change, lest they fall behind, and remain stagnant in their life? What's the difference between these 2 set of sentences?
Crux: I'll just have to get used to change and try to move on.
Cruz: I'll just have to accept change, and move on.
Does the word 'try' imply that Crux is not willing to embrace/accept change? Or does it just mean that Crux does not have a real revelation about what 'change' is? What separates Crux from Cruz? A different attitude? A different mindset? What is it?
Why do some people's life remain forever stagnant? Is is because they're so comfortable at where they are that stepping out of that comfort will 'break' them? What stops them from stepping out? A lack of motivation/passion? A lack of purpose/vision? A lack of a goal? Fear of failing? Fear of falling? Fear of taking risks? Laziness? Inability to take up challenges? Or is inertia at work here? Where we'll only move when an external force is acted upon us, if not, we'll just remain where we are?
"As long as you are not progressing somewhere, you know you are stagnating." When things get too comfortable for us, will we step out of the comfort zone and do something, or will we continue to remain in the comfort of the comfort zone? What will you choose? An active, meaningful life? Or a mundane, meaningless life? Then again, who said an active life is meaningful and a mundane life, meaningless?
Staring into the Abyss,
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Sometimes, it will be good to do more and ponder less, because just as thinking can bring us to the next stage, thinking too much can cause us to be too deep in thought to move anywhere.
I've found out that sometimes, we learn as we move along. We just don't wonder too much about what;s gonna happen. After all, every second flies pass as we wonder, so we might as well simply go ahead.
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I've found out that sometimes, we learn as we move along. We just don't wonder too much about what;s gonna happen. After all, every second flies pass as we wonder, so we might as well simply go ahead.
