NationStates Jolt Archive

Often people seem to say things like "you're just afraid of change" if you oppose an idea of theirs, and everyone else buys into it. Why is it that people automatically assume that you oppose it because it's different, rather than considering the possibility that maybe you've actually looked at the way things are now, and the way things would be in the proposed thing, and you've decided you LIKE the way things are NOW more? (or if you liked things the way they were yesturday more, and you want to go back to that)

Why is it that people are seemingly incapable of realizing that just because we did something yesturday, and did something different today, it doesn't mean that what we did today was better, and we should keep going that route...? Why do people not consider the possibility that what we did yesturday was, in fact, better than what we did today or what we would be doing tomorrow, and thus change back accordingly?

Obviously when I say today tomorrow yesturday, in the real world context it's more like centuries (or decades), but the idea remains the same.

Your thoughts?

true, change isn't always good. but it's always going to happen. whether or not you like it, stopping change is impossible; all that remains is to decide how you will meet change and respond to it.

I look at it this way--change may not always be for the better, but stagnation is death waiting to happen. I'll take a bad change over stagnation any day.

Change isn't always good, but it's always inevitable.

Likewise, change isn't always BAD, but just the same, it's always going to happen.


Life IS change. It is the catalyst that forces things to evolve, the driving power behind both intellect and laborer, the force that causes and ends wars.

Birth, life, death, rust...allways has been, always will be, for everything.




(You know, I think that poast was somewhat poetic myself :p)

Change can be good and it can be bad. As it stands, things are terrible right now and they could very well get worse. Change to something radically new would be a good idea to avoid bad change. If we assumed that the status quo was always right, we'd still have slavery right now.

Because when I hand over a 10 dollar bill for something that only cost $6.99 I expect to get some change back.