I was thinking a few days ago about changing. No matter what changes, it always seems to cause discomfort to me. OF course, changes we do not want or expect usually hurt more. Like, when I broke up from my last long term relationship, it sucked. One of the main reasons it sucked, is the change from spending 70% of my time around one person, to being alone. Big change.

But even good changes hurt. I’m in the process of getting fit. Frequent sports, running, diet watching etc. It’s working. But my muscles hurt, I get puffed out, I’m tired, I’m lazy, it’s cold…I don’t always want to go through what is necessary to make the change happen! It makes me most uncomfortable
Of course, the results are awesome, so I put up with it.

Now, I was also thinking, what happens when we “arrive”. What happens when we are at the location we wanted to get to (i.e. when I’m fit). Well, I don’t see how it’s possible to “stand still”. Maintaining a status quo requires work. Like if I don’t keep exercising, I will stop being fit. But even with a routine, the world has a way of making it so we need to adapt, and change, just to maintain that status quo. In Perth, it can get hot in summer. Sometimes we get heat waves where the whole week is about 40 degrees. Now, I could run in that, and kill myself, and not be able to run the next day. Or I could change my routine and do some other exercise, or just less running. Or do it at a different time.

So, everyone is changing. You’re either changing the methods used to keep your current situation active, or your working on changing your current situation. That means everyone is always going to be in some level of “natual” discomfort. Unless you learn to accept that the results are more important than the discomfort. Learn to ignore the discomfort. Go with it. The greater my discomfort, usually, the greater the change that is happening. I think thats a pretty good bright side to look on when I’m uncomfortable with the work required to make something happen