Enjoying change

I suggested to a friend he might consider changing some of his habits. “It’s a bit late now” … and I heard this from a 25 year old!
At whatever age change happens it can improve everything for us but often it’s too little, too late. Or we change-go-mad and do something so radical that we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping it up.
Competition with other humans plays a big part here – if change isn’t going to help us win status it won’t seem like such a good idea. Because we regard self development as a competitive sport, success becomes more important than the actual enjoyment of it. We don’t enjoy the process of change which gets us success. We race one another to be more special, more rich, more well known, revered, liked and so on. Change is supposed to be enjoyable, the very process, risk, uncertainty, that’s the essence of it. It isn’t to be confused with teeth grindingly hard self discipline. Change is a teacher keeping us creative, keeping us on our toes and giving life an edge. It draws us into a less judgemental attitude. Change is ever forgiving because the best change must involves mistakes and misjudgements. If Change were our teacher it would be patient enough to appreciate even a little movement in the human.