ADAPTABILITY

The foremost survival instinct


‘The best laid schemes o’ mice and men often go astray’
– Robert Burns


The modern day world is full of changes, occurring on every nook’n’corner of one’s life. Well, I know one constant that is here to stay for quite sometime now. Change. It is the only constant worth constanting that you’ll find today, be it the workplace, the social circuit or even in our own personal lives.



I can but only make a small recount of the various changes afflicting our lives. Whenever we talk about changes the foremost thing coming to our minds is the changes taking place in our surroundings. These changes make us feel awkward and alienate us from the surrounding, which is exactly opposite of what we must do. We must, in fact, harmonize ourselves with those surroundings and gel-it-up completely.
Other very-difficult-to-handle changes, which sometimes rock us from our ground, are the changes occurring in the situations we are placed in. People, sometimes get so uncomfortable with these changes that they encounter amygdala hijack—taking over of our primitive senses, which take us to fight or flight.
Some other peculiar changes in which we are most likely to err are the problems of scarcity as well as plenty. The latter being the more complex, yet more easily taken. People can control themselves in’n’durin the adversities as well as crises but the problem of having more than anticipated and required make us loose control of ourselves and we lose.
Relationships often go berserk on one person getting a toehold at the wrong place in another’s emotions. These are undoubtedly the results of the inability to recognize the changes that the relationship goes through (remember Saathiya??).



Now enough of descriptions.
We must
· Anticipate change,
· Adapt to change quickly,
· Enjoy change,
· Be ready to change quickly, again and again.


Whenever you get stuck in some tacky situation and cannot find a way out, laugh at yourself, say that “my cheese has just been moved “ and move with it.