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Embrace Change

When we are insecure, our first reaction to CHANGE is almost always negative. We resist CHANGE. This can be particularly true of veterans with a military past who have moved away, moved around, seen hard and difficult things, and then returned home again. Resisting CHANGE seldom works because CHANGE is inevitable. It’s going to happen whether we like it or not. You can’t stop growth. You can’t stop CHANGE. Sometimes we resent it. And sometimes we just ignore it, pretend it doesn’t exist and we resent it. The older we get, the more we want security, and anything that shakes our comfortable nest threatens us. We don’t like that. We don’t like things to be unpredictable. We don’t like things to CHANGE. We want to know exactly where it’s going. We want everything to be programmed, right in place. If anything comes up that is a surprise, we resent it, because it gives us that feeling of uncertainty. So we complain and criticize and we gripe and we grumble. CHANGE always produce