What makes us want to change?
What pushes through that dividing line between inaction and action?
What is the amount of suffering we are willing to put up with?
And at what point does internal “Enough!” become sufficiently loud to provoke a commitment?
We, humans, are amazing creatures - we can adjust to a lot of things: to hot weather, to living in a large city, to a totalitarian regime and even to our own crippling habits.
Smoking, drinking, binge eating and purging, obsessively checking your body for signs of diseases or constantly surfing internet for medical information – the list can go on.
However, there is hope – people can change and many do change. About half of people with an alcohol problem will eventually be able to stop this habit, and many will do it on their own. People quit smoking; learn to manage their depression or eating disorder, OCD or hypochondria… People learn to be better workers, parents, spouses… The capacity to adjustment comes very helpful as well.
As Goethe has pointed out,
We, humans, are amazing creatures - we can adjust to a lot of things: to hot weather, to living in a large city, to a totalitarian regime and even to our own crippling habits.
Smoking, drinking, binge eating and purging, obsessively checking your body for signs of diseases or constantly surfing internet for medical information – the list can go on.
However, there is hope – people can change and many do change. About half of people with an alcohol problem will eventually be able to stop this habit, and many will do it on their own. People quit smoking; learn to manage their depression or eating disorder, OCD or hypochondria… People learn to be better workers, parents, spouses… The capacity to adjustment comes very helpful as well.
As Goethe has pointed out,
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole steam of events issues from the decision.(NS)
