We talk about change pretty much every day. It's entered the lexicon of how we talk about what we see around us. So much so we just accept it as routine.
I wonder how much we really think about it though.
Mostly, the context I hear about it tends to be in relation to problems, managing, uncertainty. I rarely hear about it being talked about warmly. It's spoken about in the same tones as ageing, disease and death. Something we have to cope with.
I don't think it's that at all.
Change is like a challenging friend. We know it has no intent to harm us - anything but - it just requires us to make choices around things that matter to us.
All of us alive today have been born into an age of organisation and definitions.
Get educated as best you can and do well against criteria set by other people whose interest is largely in the economic benefit you will generate, more than the journey of your life.
Use that education to get a good job and a good career, working in structures designed by other peopl…
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