Change

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.