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This-essay is a9702013.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %FAMILIAR BOREDOM TEDIUM ENNUI PAIN ANXIETY FEAR+970201 %CHANGE GROWTH TRANSFORMATION TRANSCENDENCE LOVE+970201 %FREEDOM LIBERATION ESCAPE REVOLUTION REPENTANCE 970201 We often prefer familiar boredom, tedium, ennui, pain, anxieties and fear---over all that is unfamiliar--- including: change, growth, transformations, transcendence, love, freedom, liberation, escape, revolutions, and repentance. When in doubt, we seek to keep what is familiar---no matter how bad it is. When in doubt, we avoid what in unfamiliar---no matter how much better it would be. We cling to the familiar, and run from whatever is unfamiliar---to maintain the familiar status quo. Our best friends will wonder what has come over us if we do not cling to them and their familiar, but pain-full ways. How will we explain to them why we want to make changes? They would not understand or accept us. Our religious associates will ask why we are going astray---if we do not cling with them to their familiar certainties, dogmas, rituals, traditions, sayings, habits, attitudes, assumptions, fears, expectations, and conformal ways. How can we justify ourselves to them in the face of their bafflement over any decision by us to repent and change our ways, and leave their ways? They would not understand or accept us! Our addictive friends and co-dependent supporters will be baffled if we seek to change and give up their "friendships" and "fixes-for-whatever-is-wrong-with-us-as- persons". They will be threatened if we do not work with them to "fix" our defective "souls". How will we be able to live with abandoning them and with threatening them? If we permit change and growth to occur (which we do not understand, cannot predict and cannot hope/plan to control) how are we to maintain proper control of outcomes in order to justify ourselves; so as to qualify for acceptance and salvation before God and all of the heavenly angels? It is better for us to aim to achieve a perfect and permanent state of having arrived---a state in which no change or growth is needed or called for. Then we will not be threatened by the need to grow-up or change; or by reasonable calls for us to repent, change or grow. We will have "arrived." It will be up to others who disagree with us to: change, accommodate, give-a-lot, sacrifice, concede, surrender, admit mistakes, apologize, etc. Because we will have arrived, there will be no need to change in regards to: doctrines, dogmas, interpretations of scriptures, religious rituals, decision-making-processes, power distribution, old-boy- networks, rights, duties and/or privileges. Now, if only we could get the rest of the universe to stop changing---all would be in order and there would be no chaotic processes to disturb us and our tranquility. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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