At some level, change is irrefutable.
You don't even have look very far to see it, literally and ideologically.
A question you often feel circulating around the reality of change is whether it is good (or not).
In some spaces we are quite comfortable with it — for example, we like many of the creature-comforts that we enjoy today, especially when we see what people in earlier times had to endure.
In other spaces many are less comfortable with change, perhaps because they feel like something is being lost or is out of control. Certainly, some things are being lost and some of that is, at best, unfortunate. But, in other ways, there are many things being lost which, frankly, are good to lose. With the benefit of hindsight, we've seen their liabilities and taken steps to change them.
Cultural and social issues tend to prevail in areas of concern about change. For those with religious sensitivities, change in theological frame-works can often feel threatening.
It is easy to romanticize things about the past that we wish we could hold on to or return to. But, the very nature of things seems to indicate that you can't really have one kind of change without the other. We don't get to pick and choose. It just happens.
And that is a critical dynamic to recognize — a lot of change just happens.
Not to say that change is completely random (though some of it certainly looks that way). Change seems to be something that is more related to the way motion, activity, and ideas tend to work. There are physical dynamics involved with things that are in motion. Action tends to create reaction. Ideas tend to generate new ideas. In other words, one thing begets another.
It doesn't take long to notice that nearly everything is reacting to something else — quickly or slowly. And, at some point, it is not hard to recognize that the dynamics of change are almost natural (even as we, almost naturally, resist it). The nature of birth itself seems to announce that there are always new things that are happening. While elements of certain things seem pervasively consistent, the application of them often seems to morph or evolve as the context in which it exists does. In that way, it has to.
And, so, resisting the irrefutability of change is almost futile.
Rather than primarily trying to resist it, perhaps it is more helpful to identify how to constructively work with the phenomenon of change. This recognizes and gives agency to how we would like to shape the function and substance of the way change (inevitably) happens.
