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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill I must not be a fanatic. ;) Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -George Bernard Shaw I grew up mostly thinking that change meant the potential for improvement and growth. Sometimes I was disappointed, but not always. Turns out life sometimes disappoints, but not always. So change isn't that unique. Some people take a stand against change declaring how much they hate it. They prefer sameness and predictability. It's comforting. Then some love change because they're quickly bored with sameness. They prefer spontaneity, and like things to be more unpredictable. I don't feel like I fit into either category because there must be shades of grey between these two extremes. For starters, I rather object to change for the sake of change - except when it comes to moving furniture around. I kinda prefer to have a reason behind the changes I want to make - I want the change at least to have a good shot at being an improvement. I'm more interested in things being better, not just different! In that regard, everything is subject to change, even if it's only my ability to understand it more clearly. It doesn't mean things like absolute facts or truth change, but my view of them certainly can. And sometimes, it should...because sometimes I have things wrong. It's not the facts or truth that need to change, but ME. I started pondering how culture increasingly seems fixated on changing everything other than ourselves. When we don't like something or agree with something, it's less about us changing our viewpoint or increasing our understanding - but instead, it's about doing whatever we can to impose altering the externals. When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl The problem is that sometimes the situation isn't the problem. We are. For a long time, I've been interested in the impact prescription opioids have on the human brain. Young. Old. Men. Women. It doesn't seem to matter. I've talked with older people in their 80s who have a family member (also in their 80s) and they describe the behavior of their loved one exactly the same as those in their 30s describe a much younger man. "They're behaving like a teenager with a rebellious streak. Selfish. Blaming everybody else." It doesn't seem to matter if they're a young man or an old woman. The opioid user has little or no awareness. It's just not how they see things. Or themselves. Rarely have I encountered somebody suffering chronic pain, under the care of a pain management doctor, who found their way out of the opioid abyss, but once in a while, I run into them. Their story is also universal. "I can't believe that was me," they'll say. They rehearse all the awful things they did, all the damage their addiction caused, and with guilt written all over their face, they'll remark how unbelievable it is that they couldn't see themselves as they truly were. It was everybody else. It wasn't them. Culture and society make that same declaration every single day. I grew up hearing about "Johnny" and how everybody is out of step except "Johnny." Truth is, Johnny is the problem, not everybody else. But like the emperor with no clothes, Johnny has no clue. ----------------------------------------- The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day, and instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's in council," here they always said. "The Emperor's in his dressing room." In the great city where he lived,
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill I must not be a fanatic. ;) Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -George Bernard Shaw I grew up mostly thinking that change meant the potential for improvement and growth. Sometimes I was disappointed, but not always. Turns out life sometimes disappoints, but not always. So change isn't that unique. Some people take a stand against change declaring how much they hate it. They prefer sameness and predictability. It's comforting. Then some love change because they're quickly bored with sameness. They prefer spontaneity, and like things to be more unpredictable. I don't feel like I fit into either category because there must be shades of grey between these two extremes. For starters, I rather object to change for the sake of change - except when it comes to moving furniture around. I kinda prefer to have a reason behind the changes I want to make - I want the change at least to have a good shot at being an improvement. I'm more interested in things being better, not just different! In that regard, everything is subject to change, even if it's only my ability to understand it more clearly. It doesn't mean things like absolute facts or truth change, but my view of them certainly can. And sometimes, it should...because sometimes I have things wrong. It's not the facts or truth that need to change, but ME. I started pondering how culture increasingly seems fixated on changing everything other than ourselves. When we don't like something or agree with something, it's less about us changing our viewpoint or increasing our understanding - but instead, it's about doing whatever we can to impose altering the externals. When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl The problem is that sometimes the situation isn't the problem. We are. For a long time, I've been interested in the impact prescription opioids have on the human brain. Young. Old. Men. Women. It doesn't seem to matter. I've talked with older people in their 80s who have a family member (also in their 80s) and they describe the behavior of their loved one exactly the same as those in their 30s describe a much younger man. "They're behaving like a teenager with a rebellious streak. Selfish. Blaming everybody else." It doesn't seem to matter if they're a young man or an old woman. The opioid user has little or no awareness. It's just not how they see things. Or themselves. Rarely have I encountered somebody suffering chronic pain, under the care of a pain management doctor, who found their way out of the opioid abyss, but once in a while, I run into them. Their story is also universal. "I can't believe that was me," they'll say. They rehearse all the awful things they did, all the damage their addiction caused, and with guilt written all over their face, they'll remark how unbelievable it is that they couldn't see themselves as they truly were. It was everybody else. It wasn't them. Culture and society make that same declaration every single day. I grew up hearing about "Johnny" and how everybody is out of step except "Johnny." Truth is, Johnny is the problem, not everybody else. But like the emperor with no clothes, Johnny has no clue. ----------------------------------------- The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day, and instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's in council," here they always said. "The Emperor's in his dressing room." In the great city where he lived,
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