Change is risk. What makes the risk worthwhile?

Answer 1

Change is happening every moment, inside and outside ourselves. In the world of duality/polarity (the relative field) change is the only possibility, nothing remains permanent; our minds, our emotions are in constant upheaval--from one extreme to the other (joy to sorrow, love to hate, laughter to tears, etc.) In fact, the only thing that we can rely on is that whatever condition exists in any given moment will soon shift. So, with that in mind, the only change that is truly worthwhile is the decision to transcend the ego-mind that creates the ordinary chaotic, everyday experiences. This entails a leap into the unknown, which for many might feel like a "risk," as it did for me--the observation of the erratic, unreliable ego-self through dedicated meditation. Over a (long) period of time of sitting in silence, the layers of false self have begun to dissolve; in their place I am discovering something new hidden behind the veils of separation from an abiding inner source. I call this Source, the Absolute field, unchanging and eternal. This has, indeed, been a "risk" worth taking. And the process continues; much yet is to fall away from this "separated" one. I am Sirius

Answer 2

Fortunately or not, there exists no great movement without it. And I suppose it is in the intangible knowingness that whether one stands or falls, or the world about you should collapse completely, you do know and feel within somehow you are the latter and not the former person you once were, now somewhat new. What are atoms but the sacrificial little lambs, affecting to be solid things, thought of as comprising either loss or gain.

Now, animals engage in this everyday, no? 'As do stars and nebulae... What say we that the atoms that make up water were not an impulse thought-up or first divined into being by dint of taking risks?

Yet, who truly thrives on it? Who is she or he, what brave one is there who looks to it without yet knowing loss may be brought to bear. I mean here, don't we scrape and strain, bleed in a moment's notice if our veneers should be breached by lance or spear? And what of all the high talk when better that action not rhetoric imparts best.

Ah... risks are the daunting ones. They are both a devil's and an angel's little guideposts upon any the path, which guarantee to appraise us of risks and fears.

But this is the way it is, no?

When one fears living and fears out-of-hand risks, she or he is afraid that the choice she makes will lock her into a certain limiting state of consciousness, that she won't be able to be free once the choice is made -- that she will be frozen in time and space -- rendered limited, like death. Who is immune from that seeming? Yet risk is a default, whether planned, or a slip-up-and-into.

Alas, rather than risk getting involved with life and the possibility of becoming frozen, she or he doesn't act or get involved with life at all. This is the humorous or sad part, yes? For when one refuses to get involved with the life she or he is in, then she is truly dead. She has locked herself into inaction -- death -- the very thing she was trying to avoid!

Answer 3

The alternative of change would be to stagnate & that for sure is not an option I want. We all have to make changes in one way or another in our lives, many times over. And very often those changes offer excitement, adventure and something worthwhile that we could never have imagined. So, I do think change, although a risk, is definitely worthwhile!

Answer 4

It makes the risk worthwhile when you know without a doubt that the change you are going to take, is going to be better than where you are right now.

Answer 5

it's not just the prospect of something different that makes change worthwhile. change for change's sake is a credo that undoes many good things in the world.

no, the risk is worthwhile when the prospect for betterment, improvement, progress, is what triggers the change. risk can have three different outcomes... status quo, (no change as a result of the risk) improvement as a result of the risk taken, or a relative worsening of conditions.

faith that risks are well-taken and will result in improvement (in one's own situation, or another's, or that of the environment, society, or world!) drives us to take the risks that gratify us with wondrous results, making the 'change' worthwhile.

the end justifies the means.

Answer 6

I don't believe that we have a choice in taking the risk of change. Any organism that is alive is going through change. It's inevitable. Only dead things no longer change.

When making choices in life, I've pointed out to my children that there are very few choices (changes) which are irrevocable IF you're willing to be extreme. The closest to irrevocable is becoming a parent, but if you're willing to be extreme enough, you can give away the child. THAT's extreme.

Over the years, I've told many a discouraged or depressed person that they should hang in there because things will change. Nothing stays the same. Eventually, things will change.. like it or not.

Answer 7

What makes change worthwhile is the balance of the outcome being bigger than the initial change...

Example:
You are moving to a new town and buying a new home and car and you will have a new job and leave old friends...

However the good part is, you will have new friends, have a nicer home, a better job, and more money coming in to pay for it all...

So the change of all the good points outweighs the change of the old points...

Answer 8

Change is nothing of the sort. Change is a fact of life, something that will always continue to happen, no matter what you want. Failure to accept that fact does not stop change from happening and to believe it does is a form of blindness. The only risk here is the risk of not moving and growing with the changes that come your way.

Answer 9

First of all, just the excitement of it and the possibility of
an adventure, come what may. I've always looked at
not changing as the biggest risk out there. You risk
not growing, not learning, not moving forward towards
your development and worst of all, not finding your
dream out there. It's worth everything to pursue it.
Then you can always say...I put 100% toward it...
even if it never came true. I paint and no matter
how great the piece turns out, I always look to the
process as being far more rewarding than the end
result.

Answer 10

learning. I mean w2e shouldn`t rush off to start some new search for the fantastic but on the whole I think we need to step out and take risks in life in order to further our learning, I don`t think we should shy away from making mistakes or indeed making some change we should I believe embrace both with excitment. Making changes to our lives involves risk and we will encounter mistakes as we go, but mistakes are not to be seen as huge critical errors that blacken our progress, but curves on the arc of learning. In learning what doesn`t work for us we can then discern what does or may work in the future.