post off: do you embrace change?
I don’t always like to admit it, but I’m not good with change. Just yesterday I learned that a restaurant I frequent removed my favorite appetizer from the menu. It was replaced with several new and exciting seasonal dishes, but I could barely get past my shock to appreciate the thoughtful (and tasty) update. I recognize the ridiculous nature of my unease when it comes to small changes, but it seems I’m just very easily thrown for a loop. So, readers, are you a go-with-the-flow type, or does change make you shudder? –Erica P.
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Change can be torture, but I think it’s important to embrace the variety that it brings into our lives. If nothing changed, it would be a dull existence indeed!
I feel you. I am a routine person. The grounding of a routine that revolves around scheduling allows me the time and mindset to be productively creative, but like you I am often thrown by small changes that I “expect” to be consistent..learning to deal with these types of surprises…sigh
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Ok. So I was saying…that I don’t like change. There is a comfort in getting what you know and experiencing something you have before. You come to expect it, think about it, look forward to it and when it doesn’t happen that way…it is like something that once was has gone away.
Reading this blog is a daily comfort for me. Thank you!
Change is ok sometimes – but when it involves restaurants taking my faves off the menu it is definitely not cool!
Watch out, or I’ll report you to White Whine. ;-)
oh, i am SO bad with change! it just all goes hand-in-hand with my very type A, “no, this is how it should be” personality. how on earth does my poor hubs tolerate me?
I’m totally open to change- for the most part. But it seems at times that when the “change floodgates” open, it all comes at once, which can be super challenging to navigate through. Sigh. I guess that’s what I pay my counselor for, though. :)
I thrive on change! I love it and I need it!
It is one of the unwritten laws of living today. Just when you finally find the perfect restaurant dish, the perfect ice-cream flavor or the best fitting jeans ever….then they decide to replace it with something new. I don’t see change as an uneasy feeling, it is more like a personal attack!!
Most restaurants will still make things they take off the menu, especially the non-chain restaurants.
Good things shouldn’t change. It just causes too much stress.