Why Resist Change?

by MEGS S. LUNN

Do people make efforts to change? How do we break the vicious cycle?

It has been repeated and heard it many times that "change is the only permanent word in the world." Likewise, people hear it all the time, at work place, in their daily lives and in their whole lifetime of being.

But do people break that vicious cycle when they are there…almost there? Do they right away change the course of their journey or do they need to think twice first in order to keep moving?

In politics, there is always this dream to serve. Yet, they don’t change. They change only when they are pressured and they are there right in the field. Never in their minds did they ever think of change when they were still contemplating to serve. How is that? Why is that so?

After the election, we heard many clamors from each political party. We hear a simple statement like; "there is no paper left, no computer password, no files," and so on. We hear some politicians who don’t speak well but promise to work well. There are neophyte politicians who don’t know how to deal with the proceedings and don’t have skill to preside the meetings, not to mention how to raise a motion, how to speak off the cuff during interviews and many other observations. What is even funnier is to just make an unsolicited scene in a session in order to be recognized.

In the real sense, why on earth dream to become a politician when they have not prepared for it? Worse for they are unfit. Now it’s like, easier said than done, huh?!

Moreover, we hear politicians who have not taken their oath of office yet, but already looking for opponents for the 2013 election, so arrogant. Some already dream of a higher position. Even preparing for the next term ahead? How can these people be? Impossible?

Right now, in the first one hundred days of the newly elected and re-elected government servant leaders, we are still hearing of too much indifferences between and among them. Instead of focusing on what they have prepared for (if they are prepared), or focusing on learning how to process things and fast track their goals to accomplish matters for their constituents this is a serious matter that we need to face as now duly elected public servant.

Change, they thought is that easy to implement. It requires courage and commitment of mind and heart to do so. These people who are now seating and trying so hard to fulfill their functions should lead their people to focus on things that need to be done, pronto. We can’t afford to keep clamoring over things that can be solved within our scope. We can make things happen among us.

At times, we fail to appreciate each other’s difference, we fail to acknowledge the diversity among us. If we fail to appreciate that, then we create a society of dis-truction and hate. Most often than this, the source of conflict is the differences in the personalities of each member in the organization.

Now that they are public officials, did it come into their minds that they are also public property? People are watching them, what they will do next and in the future. The constituents have spoken in May 10, 2010. Now, it’s their turn to give back what is expected of them. We, the citizens who voted them that position, look forward to fruitful years of work and a better life under their leadership. They are the leaders that people look up to.

To a child viewing his parent, "ang nakikita sa matatanda, tama sa mata ng mga bata." What your people see of you, is what your people believe on you. Therefore, the only thing that can be your guiding principle is to become a role model of the community that you serve. Surely, everything will follow smoothly. People will be behind you once you do things right. Once you are on the right track, you’ll get ample support.

FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

We must have the will to change. Will to proceed, will to understand each other, will to consult, to complement each other, and to heal organizational wounds.

The best example is to do things right: in the community. It is as simple as: "stay on the line and wait for your turn, no dumping, no smoking, no parking, no swerving, no loading and unloading, no red tape", among others. These are the things we need to remember to make change happens.

According to what we heard, "some people knows how to read, but don’t know how to understand." Well, we wish that when you read this, you understand it well, too. /MP