You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as a ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Source: emilytraeger
Change
Change is usually met with resistance.
Sometimes, that change is like watching a pitcher of water get knocked off the edge of a table. At first, you instinctively reach out your hands to stop the water — to keep the floor from getting wet. It’s really just a reaction. Because if you thought about it, what would make you think you could stop the stream of falling water with your bare hands? At first your hands might try to convince your mind that it’s possible. The beginnings of that stream land in your hand. But soon it pours over the sides and through your fingers. And you’re helpless. Helpless to watch this water splash to the ground.
And then you’re left looking silly, standing in the middle of a puddle, with your outstretched hands wet and clinging to the last few drops of water. All you can do is beat yourself over the head for not doing things different — for not placing the pitcher so precariously close to the edge.
Eventually — and this timeframe varies for everyone — acceptance starts to sink in. Eventually you accept that the water is lost forever, the pitcher is shattered, and all that’s left to do is to grab a mop, clean up the mess, and never let something get that close to the edge again.
All improvement will require change, but not all change will result in improvement.
… people change only when they hurt enough that they have to, learn enough that they want to, or receive enough that they are able to.
