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Handling Change — Resilience
I’m back! Oh stop with the applause! I’ll hop right in.
Change has been a leading concept since the onset of … you know what. The world experienced change socially, culturally, intellectually and in every sphere of experience. At work places, Zoom, Teams, and other networking tools took precedence over in-person meetings. At home, being in the company of family was unrelenting. We all experienced change and like me, you make have a complicated relationship with change.
I got married recently, hence my hiatus from writing. I also changed my living conditions, place of worship, and sold items that I had aquired over the years. Lots of change, right? And it gets better. Even when we planned the wedding we navigated change a lot more than we anticipated. We planned to have a destination wedding initially but news on variants made us conclude that we may be exposing some people to unnecessary risk. Then we started working to have a small ceremony where we reside. At first we could have 30 guests, then 150, as per the policies. Then things shut down and we could only have a church ceremony with no reception.
Surprisingly, I did not freak out at any point through all this and I know without a doubt that a couple of factors prepared me for situations like this. I knew resilience had been built into my constitution somehow. First, what does resilience…
