It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
— Alan Cohen
It was about two and a half years ago that I first found this quote. It was appropriate then because I was just starting a new job. Now that job is part of my past, but the sentiment behind this quote is still pertinent in my life.
I am almost always “embracing the new” in one way or another, it seems. I don’t know that it is courageous in my case, it’s simply pragmatic. It’s much easier to embrace it than to fight it.
Embracing the new is better than being swept along by the inevitable. And “the new” is often thrilling. So I think I’ll open my arms wide, welcome in the new, and be grateful for all the good in my life.
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