CHAPTER 1: COULD THIS BE YOU?
The residents of a small village reelected the dead mayor. According to one resident, ‘I know he died, but I don’t want change.’1
Whenever I mention this quote to people, they laugh. But often the laughter is accompanied by a nod of recognition. As amusing as this resident’s comment is, the wish that things could be otherwise is a universal yearning. Who, after all, hasn’t, at one time or another, wished that things could return to the way they once were?
People don’t like change. Obviously, it would be inaccurate to claim that no one ever likes change. Life is one change after another. If we couldn’t handle change, we couldn’t survive. Most of the time, in fact, we just go with the flow and adjust slowly or quickly ...
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