Sunday, December 11, 2011

Fear Of Change

That title actually has two meanings: The fear of things changing, and the fear of receiving coin money in exchange for paper money. I have both. I put my change in my wallet, but then my wallet gets all bulky and heavy. It's just a hassle. However, this is going to be about the other "fear of change," you know, the one that actually exists.
Yesterday, my housemate bought a new TV stand for his room. His other one was a little dilapidated, and the new one was clearly an upgrade. Also, It only cost like ten dollars. He was pretty excited to set it up and, when he removed the old one, he contemplated drastically rearranging his whole room. He moved a couple of things around, but ultimately decided against the complete home-makeover. While he was moving his couple of things, though, our other housemate asked if we needed help, which we declined. He then said that he was going to rearrange his room next week: "Rearranging your room is always a good thing." My response was, "Yeah, and if you do it next week, you won't have to study for finals!" which is totally true. I mean, you can't study and rearrange at the same time. Well, you can, but that'd just be exerting a ton of effort, and neither would be as effective as it would be without the other. I had to ponder these new ideas and theories and whatnots. I hate studying, and, quite frankly, I don't need to study, especially for the finals I have. I thought about the possibility of rearranging my room during the whole ten foot walk from my housemates room back to my room, and even for a few seconds upon entering my room. I decided against it. At the time, I thought it was because I just didn't feel like moving stuff, but upon further contemplation, I believe I have an underlying fear of change. If I rearrange my room, it will be different, and different is bad. I would like it stay the same; I feel safe in here. The underlying fear of change could also explain some other habits I have, like not looking for the remote when I lose it. I know that if I find it, I'll change the channel, and change is scary. It could also explain why I wear the same pair of jeans for days at a time - I feel safe in those jeans. I don't want to change into a different PAIR of the SINGULAR word, jeans (I will never get over how nonsensical the word "jeans" is. If you have a pair of jeans, you really only have one thing. And that one thing doesn't even make sense). This fear of change has an unhealthy hold on my life. I'm stuck with it, though, because in order to get rid of the fear of change, I, myself, would have to change, which is the one thing I fear most. If you don't count like 20 other things I fear. This is quite the conundrum. I should've stuck with that Psychology major.
Just as a disclaimer, I don't have a fear of change. Or, more correctly, I don't have a crippling fear of change that prevents me from looking for the remote control. I don't do the things I said because, sometimes, I'm lazy and/or unmotivated. Except the jeans thing. There's just no point in changing jeans every day.

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