So often peo­ple want, or demand, change — be it in our lives, in oth­ers, in the world. Unfor­tu­nately, a good num­ber of peo­ple — and I include myself in that group — merely want change, but make no effort to change our­selves. As Gandhi so elo­quently stated,

Instead of look­ing else­where for change, I have really made an effort to look at what changes I need to make. Before blam­ing oth­ers, I have tried to look within first to see/feel why I am hav­ing a reac­tion. Most often, it’s not really the per­son or event that is the burr in my sad­dle. It’s me, or some­thing in my past that I have yet to resolve. To truly expe­ri­ence change, I need to change and evolve. Oth­er­wise, I will most assuredly find myself going through the same annoy­ances and irri­tants over and over.

Life is not sta­tic. Expect­ing change while sit­ting still is resign­ing to no change at all.

Change requires change.