To win, accept the change

To win, accept the change: Most of us tend to take the same route every day towards our life; talk to the same friends daily, follow a pattern and any diversion is seen as hassle and cumbersome causing irrational anxieties and stress. However, the moment we  take a walk in the opposite direction, we see new faces, the road curves differently, we relate differently and the new activities we indulge in may become more interesting. Going for a change, we make friends, we somehow let go of a daily pattern and in doing this we also let go of our past. We break free from rituals and boring mundane drama. In accepting change, we accept a new direction. We overcome imaginary irrational fears, beating stress and anxiety and becoming confident once again. A new activity or even redoing an activity that we had lost touch with over a period of time would also bring alive a person. Similarly, while perusing daily practices we must not only accept new duties and new challenges but even pose new ideas and forge new ground. In fighting a war, army generals often use tried and tested methods of warfare. They rely on their past experiences in fighting new wars, failing to understand the fact that the enemy may have grown stronger with respect to warfare techniques and/ or artillery. Napoleon often used this warfare technique, attacking his enemy from various sides in various ways, with greater fluidity, creating chaos and confusion amongst the enemy ranks. With the help of smaller troops, who could attack with ease and change their methods to suit the terrain during combat. He gave his enemy a run. Whereas his opponents, the Prussians in the 1806 war would use systematic but outdated methods of attack, Napoleon won the war simply by using change as a policy of attack. To encourage change one has to be the ‘change agent’. One must involve and evolve oneself in multiple ways, challenge set patterns, seek new opportunities leaving aside set procedures to become self-reliant.