Lost or Liberated?

Whether we admit it or not, everyone hates change. I'm not talking about small changes like choosing a different restaurant to go eat at, but more so of the big changes, the 10X changes as Andy Grove said in his book Only the Paranoid Survive. Be it in business or in personal life. 10X changes are disruptive. They are difficult to deal with because they take everything we know and throw it out the window. They make you go back to school and learn new lessons. Change can be liberating. Change can force action or it can force inaction due to paralysis brought on by fear. You can be lost in it. Sometimes something as small as re-arranging the furniture at home can trigger change anxiety. Because it's something that we've come to count on. We crave permanence, when there is none, and the only contant is change.

But when we are experiencing a 10X change it is up to us to determine where we stand on that line of feeling lost or liberated. But it's always a mixture of both, because you've lost something you had.