When we here of the word change, what comes
first into our minds? To some it’s a 360
degree reverse in what our behaviors and personas, to others it’s an about-turn
in our mindsets and way of thought. To others it’s a complete halt in
performing whatever we were supposed to perform. Yet one common thing stands
out in all of these terminologies: change is body-wise and meant to help us
achieve the better.
Yet we tend to overlook the important type of
change: change in spirit. The spirit is our very essence, it is who we are,
what is left after the 6 feet deep companionship with the wooden coffin. It is
the spirit that wills the mind and body, drives these two to action. It is the
driver behind the wheels as we go for the ride that is life.
Thinking about it this way, we need to manage
this driver. The driver is the ultimate controller of all the factors
constituting a journey: speed, direction, motion. The type of vehicle does not matter;
neither does the definition of “driver”. It does not matter whether it is a
car, plane or ship, nor even a train or wheelbarrow. As long as there is
someone who is in control, someone in charge, someone dictating the pace, they
deserve the title of “drivers”.
And yet we need to carefully control how the
driver takes control of the vehicle, how they manipulate the various elements
of control: whether they steer left right or center; whether they go at 20kph or 150kph; whether they are
always aware of their surroundings or drive recklessly.
It is this “driver” that we need to change
most. Change in the spirit automatically instigates a change in the way the
mind thinks and the body acts. Like that one drop of colored water which we
observe spreading from the epicenter to the furthest corners, that single drop
of change in the spirit will spread quickly to the mind and body. Change in
spirit is what changes us completely, turns us from who we once were into newer
versions. Technologically speaking, we are transformed from prototypes to the
complete model, ready for rollout into the world.
Let us therefore seek to consistently change
in our spirits before anything else for the good, if we are to develop
ourselves in the long run. As we so often know it “Form is temporary, but class
is permanent”. Let us take form to be mind and body, and class to be spirit,
and we shall go far and prosper in this journey called life.
