The flight of the eagle or the courage to face the changes
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In most cases we are reluctant to change because the unknown creates panic, because it means that we must change our behavior, way of being and even thinking. Let's be honest: we don't like to change. And especially when we believe that we have reached an age in which we cannot afford to alter our personality. At that moment we say: "I'm like this and I've always been like this", or "Old parrot doesn't learn to talk", or the famous saying: "it's better to be a bad person known than a good person to know". Phrases in which we hide and in which hides a deep fear of the unknown or that we have not lived.
This fear is common in human beings and each of us has experienced it at some time. Some have dared to face the changes; others have simply let fear paralyze them and have remained in the same place, with the same people, with the same thoughts, all their lives. It's like when you cross the street and a car comes towards you and you stand in the middle of the road, inert, unable to move. You want to run, remove yourself from danger, but the same threat intimidates you.
One of the reasons fear invades us is because we lose control of the situation. On one occasion, I remember listening to my grandmother, an old woman who is blind, who didn't want to be taken out of her house because she knew where everything was there and not in the other houses. For my grandmother the house was her comfort zone. Just as the house is for my grandmother, it can also be for other people, work, a couple relationship, the country where they live, a comfort zone where they do not dare to leave for fear of the unknown.
This fear of change also arises because we refuse to make mistakes. We have the mistaken idea that as adults we can not make mistakes, so we avoid things that we do not know, in this way there is less chance of failing. We build a personality adapted to what our closest environment expects from us, an area that we do not want or allow ourselves to leave. As we get older we are more resistant to change. If we see young people, for example, they are more daring and change aspects of their lives, as television channels change. Could it be that over time we lose strength, inspiration or rebellion?
There is a famous text that talks about the painful process of transformation that an eagle must go through in order to continue living. Not only must he change space and find one where he is alone, but he must tear off his beak, feathers and claws in order to get a few more years of life. This heartbreaking process has the function of making the eagle stronger, more imposing. I don't know if you've noticed, but there is a process of growth in pain: as it molts its plumage and transforms its beak and claws, the eagle will be different. In our lives, many times we have to take shelter for some time, get out of that comfort zone in which we are and begin a process of renewal to continue a higher and freer flight. In order to do this, we sometimes have to detach ourselves, in a painful way, from customs, feelings, thoughts that do not allow us to grow, to advance and keep us stopped looking at life from below or as I said before: in the middle of the road without being able to react.
As I write about heights, I think of another eagle story. The story says that one day an Indian warrior found an egg in a mountain and took it to his village and laid it among the chicken's eggs. As time passed, the chicks hatched and so did the eagle. With the days, the eagle would cackling, eating worms and corn, and digging up the earth. The eagle grew, lived, and died like a hen, not like an eagle. And sometimes that's where the problem lies. We are raised in a way and we are not able to see our own nature or go beyond the things they impose on us. The fear of change, of seeing upwards, of being different from what we are told we are, paralyses us.
On one occasion I read that "In this life you have to die several times and then be reborn. And crises, although frightening, serve to cancel an era and inaugurate another." We are daily in constant change (physical, mental, labor, loving), which means that we are evolving, in motion. The fact that we face new things must be seen as a challenge, an opportunity to move forward and give our best. Welcome the changes to our lives.
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I like these kinds of subjects, which can help us in our daily lives. I believe that people fear change because society itself forces us to be beings of routine, of customs. Sometimes we can't even cut our hair for fear that they won't recognize us, or worse, that we won't recognize ourselves. Welcome the changes!
I agree that society promotes that fear. It values permanence more, the unalterable. The idea is to confront that fear and if it is necessary to change, to do it; even if we miss or are pointed out to us. Get out of your comfort zone and test your ability to survive. Thank you for your comment, @nohebd.
@adsactly and @nancybriti. What a true and well written post.
So many have lost wonderful opportunities but for their fear of change.
Comfort is a false drug of addiction and once it gets ripped away by changed circumstances, many lives simply implode.
Change is a constant and like the metamorphosis of a Papillon (Butterfly), just so should we embrace change as an adventure towards renewal.
Just my own opinion here if I may.
Blessings!
True words and excellent image of the butterfly! It is true that changes can shake the foundations of our lives, but sometimes those changes are good and turn us from caterpillar to butterfly. Change is part of life! There is something dead about not changing. Thank you for commenting, @papilloncharity
Heya @adsactly such a powerful content!!! It will make people's vision more clear including me for sure!!! According to me if we have courage and face things we will become better in our fields or as a person which will make people think that we are the best!!! Thanks
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You said the keyword, @drakoscliff: face off! Sometimes we must not only face our environment but also face ourselves, our fears that do not allow us to move forward. The fear of change can take away many possibilities in life. Thank you for your comment.
Very thought provoking the story of the eagle that lived like a hen... and it must be said that so many people prefer the safety of the courtyard. Some look up to the eagles in the skies full of envy, but even more pretend the sky doesn't even exists.
Great post, @nancybriti!
LOL. That's right! That's another way to limit us. Believing that there are no possibilities and that everything is a matter of luck. In the end, we sabotaged ourselves, to stay in the same place and not face responsibilities. To start flying you don't just need wings, you also need the courage to use them. Thanks for your comment, @ladyrebecca.
A very complex subject, @nancybriti. I agree with a lot of the ideas that you expose in your post. Now, I'd like to add, as a personal thought (although some authors have gone that way) that the idea of change has been overestimated and, to a large extent, the critique that has been made of modernity came from that value exaggeration. Perhaps because of my age, but I believe that because of my poetic and philosophical readings, I would sustain the need for "balanced instability"; that is, the open awareness that things change and that we exist in that oscillation. In a poem I wrote a long time ago I tried to collect it (I copy it below):
Thank you for your post. Greetings.
Beautiful poem, @josemalavem. I believe in the permanent transformation, flow of things. Even the earth moves, even if it does it in the same rhythm, rhythmic, known. People change their skin on a daily basis, even though their hearts continue to beat for the same things. I bet on those changes that rather than change us, make us grow, go forward. Greetings and hugs.
Well, my friend I know the feeling.
I wish you the best in whatever painful transformation you're going through.
I have not been able to eave the country and I regret I did not take my chances when leaving was easier. All you have described here went through my head, along with some sentimental crap that we always find in our way (sometimes we put it ourselves).
But even without having left I quit my job and have to find new ways to make a living, hard as it is here. I also have to find ways to cope with that loss, to get used to the idea of not being a teacher anymore; even to get used to the idea that I may have to prescind from my books if need be.
Changing is hard but once we take the first step it gets easier.
I am a routine, predictable animal, but for some time now I have seen changes as opportunities to reinvent myself. Like you and most people, I regret not having done things at the time and what I can't do now: how to leave the country. In your case, I know that you are a valuable, talented and hardworking person, who will surely know how to succeed in whatever you set out to do. Who said fear? ;) Greetings, @hlezama.
@adsactly, thank you for another brilliant post. Change is never easy, uncomfortable for many, but once you embrace it, you will be glad you did.
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