If we are lucky,we work with people smarter than ourselves. If we are lucky. I am that lucky person. I work with a company, with a group of people that, typically, on a daily basis, teach me something I didn't already know. It isn't always easy to teach this old dog new tricks or to get past the exterior of someone like me, someone that has lived a very full life and thinks she has learned enough.

Luckily, that isn't really me, ha! Having resided in technology for the last three years, I would like to say that I embrace change - that I embrace a new way, a better way. It is not always true, but I would like to say it, anyway. ;-) Residing within technology is not the same as creating it or holding it close. I don't think it's the adopting the new, as much, as it is letting go of the old.

The tried and true, the steady and stable. New means risk, it means letting go of the safety of the familiar. We like the familiar. We like loved ones and friends to stay where they are, to wear the same clothes, to keep the hairstyles we recognize, to continue down parellel paths to our own. If they divert, maybe they won't need us, maybe they will outgrow us. We all need to feel needed, we all like to feel wanted. It is human nature.

When we open ourselves up to change, yes, there is risk, but on the flip side, there is also opportunity for growth, for expansion - that means we get bigger than we were. You can never learn too much, you can never love too much or be loved too much. The lessons dropped before me daily prove the truth in this statement. Once you stop learning, stop opening yourself up for that growth- boredom and weariness set in and we risk stagnation.

I am not ready to harvest mosquitoes, I need to keep churning, keep making the real life, keep that intensity that brings increase and gain. Whether it's interviewing a candidate for a position or interviewing a recruiter for a post, whether it's trying a new restaurant or trying a new recipe, whether it's taking the tried and true way home or experimenting on unfamiliar roads. Stagnation, boredom, weariness take joy. Don't let them.

@ by rayannethorn