Change is difficult they say. I can appreciate that knowing of older parents
who insist nothing is wrong with their ankles when a recent fracture has not healed completely and there is still swelling of the foot. The parent will even say it takes time to heal when one of the ways to assist healing, is wearing a brace that doctors advised which would immobilize the foot. This means the parent has either dissociated herself from that concern, since there is little or no pain or that change is difficult for them to accept. It is common knowledge that many elderly people have difficulty knowing they are not right in what they are doing for themselves or do not want to know of better ways to help themselves.
Change is difficult for people who continue to gamble because they see that they will eventually win when in fact the opposite is happening. They doggedly continue playing and lose a sense of self; further playing only damages their ability to live independently and even hurts their loved ones who are cut out of their endless habit.
Change is difficult to accommodate changes in the cost of living. Commodities and services will continue to go up out of proportion to earnings and people will continue to be pressured for extra funds if they want to go to school. A recent school strike was futile, increases in tuition is around the corner and students will feel a greater need to hold a job while going to school or even hold onto two jobs at the same time. It is then difficult for those students today who cannot change as easily as others or need to concentrate on their homework before considering having to work in order to continue studying.
At the same token it is difficult for people to understand that the value of the coin money they have been using over the years has changed. Those coins are still in circulation when they should be melted down and used for their face value. Even the leader of Libya suggested that. When a penny used to be worth a cent is too long ago to remember. People used to ask for a dime at the heyday of Hitchcock thrillers and now they won't even pick them off from the street. One way to value the use of change is to go by the value of a phone call which is now fifty cents and used to be twenty-five. So asking for a quarter to make a call is a worthless deal.
Change is difficult for the first time lovers who separate because one does not want to commit or for a variety of reasons. Just to dwell on the hopes that the situation will repair itself where there is no solution is hopeless. Every relationship has to work out its own course and each life has to learn what relationship it can keep and which ones cannot be kept.
Change is difficult in a variety of ways from the cradle to the grave. People have to adjust in order to move on and accept new challenges otherwise life becomes something like living in a closed container. It makes me think of being buried alive. That sounds like a Hitchcock thriller and I would never want to end up that way.
