We protect ourselves.  This is a huge part of life.
We have that precious part of us that we want to keep safe.  That little gem inside of us which is always…. “Right” and “Knowing.”

You see, today I was thinking about people changing their minds.

I wondered why changing our minds is often so difficult.  After all, everything is constantly changing.  And…. the world and our view of it….. are constantly changing.  There is never a circumstance which remains the same and static and motionless.

But why in the heck do we sometimes resist the fact that our responses might be subject to change.  How can they be forever locked in their origins?

Sometimes….. we seem to demand steadiness and consistency… that lethal stagnated static.  And we do this….  even when it makes no sense.  And most of the time…. WE like people to change their minds only when it benefits us.

A big part of this… could be…. I think…. that we get attached to answers like we do possessions.

Once we give someone an answer….. it is  no longer  just a little answer.  Once we have said it out loud…..  dag gone it…. it is OUR answer.  We’ve committed.  We now start becoming emotionally biased in favor of this incredible answer of OURS…. even if it isn’t quite on track.

IT seems we become very resistant to changing our minds because our answer has become part of who we are.   So… don’t question the answer… otherwise you are questioning me….. and this becomes a threat.

Well, dag nab it… today…. I am going to try to switch this up.  I’m going to realize that I am not always right.  None of us are.  And all and all and all of everything changes.  So it is okay… to change our minds.  It doesn’t make us weak.  Or wafflers.  It just makes us human.  And that is a good thing to be.