CHANGE: Roz Warren’s Response to our March Challenge
I doubt I’ll ever dress up as an alien space monster and attend a “Doctor Who” convention. But who knows?
I doubt I’ll ever dress up as an alien space monster and attend a “Doctor Who” convention. But who knows?
Ah, mundane routine! Surprisingly enough, that’s what anthropologist/archaeologist/potter Jerolyn Morrison longs to bring back into her life.
It is my personality and my habit to be low-key, even self-effacing, so it is going to be a big challenge for me to be self-promoting. But in years to come, it is important for me that I know that I did my best to achieve my dreams.
"Think it’s too late? Think you won’t be able to see it through? Think it’s just too much trouble? Well, get over that real fast. It’s never too late to plan a new project, explore a new field, or make a sharp left turn."
“Worst of all, I imagined that if I retired I would never find the time, or the energy, to create anew a comparable life of intellectual and social pleasures.”
"Profound unhappiness has pushed me—after days, weeks, and months of passivity, anxiety, resistance, and clinging to old ways—to take a leap that has led to personal and professional transformation."
In which the author tries to placate the Change Lioness with convincing excuses for staying put.
I am not old! Not me! I am as youthful as ever, as curious as ever, as passionate in experiencing the drama and vicissitudes of life as ever. My eyesight might be getting weaker, but I “see” better than ever.
People who walk into a therapist’s office are brave. Not because there’s a stigma attached to it (at least not in New York, where I practice) but because they are willing to reveal themselves to a stranger. They are not complaining. They are willing to say, “I want to look at things I have hidden even from myself.”