I've been thinking a lot recently about individual willingness and one's ability to change. About why some people dig down to the depths and transform their lives, while others stay more or less in the comfort of their familiar - albeit unfulfilling and habituated - lives.
In many cases, change is created by some degree of pain and discomfort. Perhaps the level of change is determined by the level of pain? Maybe in every great transformation, there is a tipping point of suffering that absolutely must be reached? Maybe not all pain is enough to reset, redirect and create the wave of momentum needed to chart a new course?
Maybe some people don't allow themselves fully feel the pain; so they fail to experience the pang of responsibility and requirement to actually make change happen? Maybe change only happens when there is sufficient need to overcome the inertia?
Perhaps it is in the challenging situations that the forces needed to bring about change are built and created. And maybe many people still don't change because the energy intended to create the change is misguidedly directed towards resisting the change to come?
