# Change and Progress By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-09-10 People often confuse change with progress. Change is inevitable, progress is not. Change is going to happen as dictated by the nature of the universe. If change did not happen, time would be meaningless. Sometimes, the change is trivial, like air molecules moving around the office. Other times, change feels significant, like a political revolution. Change will impact one's life in small and big ways. However, is one and the world better off? Progress requires one to think about change differently. One must believe something. If one only ever takes change as it comes with indifference, one may not be alive. One is merely a rock that erodes with the change. It is unlikely that one is entirely indifferent to change. Many people get upset when the road to work is blocked or when one is asked to do things differently. One has beliefs, even if they are largely unexamined. Belief is a matter of choice. Do you choose to believe that the change is good or bad? Once one answers this question, one is accountable to do something about it. Otherwise, what is the point of one's belief? Progress without belief does not exist; it is merely change. The human condition is to choose one's path of suffering, no matter how improbable. Some say we are in the middle of a values crisis. We are in a belief crisis driven by a lack of thought and unexamined lives. We are entering the Age of Choice and must choose what we believe so change can become progress. #### Related Items [[Change]] [[Progress]] [[The Human Condition]] [[Thinking]] [[The Age of Choice]] [[Examination]]