Change is inevitable, even if you stay put.
But our tolerances for change, and our preferences for change, can differ despite that reality.
How comfortable are you with change? Do you welcome it? Do you resist it? How much change can you handle before it gets too much?
And, if you're willing to share, what change in your life was most impactful in either a positive or negative sense? How did you handle that change?
The very fact that you made this an RD thread (since otherwise some of us would drift into the demise of the penny or argue over whether dollar coins are good or bad) means that society is changing.
I still carry change because I need it for pay phones and places where there's a minimum purchase amount before they'll accept debit cards. Those many science fiction conventions I attended in the '80s and '90s were much more precious to me because they were literally paid for with change I saved up over the course of a year.* Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and loonies all added up to enough to get me to Calgary or Edmonton (Banff one year, and we did it in Red Deer as well), and that effort to save made me appreciate it more than if I'd just whipped out a credit card like I saw other people doing. It makes things more real, because it's tangible.
*I did convert most of it to paper bills, but kept some loonies and quarters for smaller purchases.
But society is changing, and so are my habits. I still save change for various reasons (the aforementioned pay phones; we still do have a few around town), but I'm more apt to pay for stuff with debit or credit cards now. Apparently Canadians' attitudes toward this has shifted quite a bit over the past couple of decades.
Whether this is a good thing... it's convenient most of the time. Other times it's damned inconvenient, like when the reader decides it doesn't want to accept my card, or the network is down. I will say that I will resist the change that so many thoughtless people want - to make our society one where only electronic transactions can be done. They don't realize how that would impact people who do things like hold garage sales, or kids who babysit or mow lawns to earn money, or people who drop a loonie or toonie in a box every year for the Legion when they get their Remembrance Day poppies.
It's an RD thread.
To answer what you're really asking... it's an awkward situation to be in. I'm a science fiction fan who looks forward to the future, while in my everyday life I greatly dislike change I don't decide to make myself. The only reason I ever even considered a computer was because my typewriter wore out and I couldn't find anyone willing to fix it. Otherwise, I'd have carried on with my electric Smith-Corona and might never have ended up in the exact set of circumstances that led me to this forum.
I don't generally like changes in routine, or changes to anything else that's working and doesn't need fixing. This is a
change from how things used to be several decades ago. I remember that I used to change the layout of the furniture in my room fairly often (maybe twice a year). Part of the reason was when I needed more room to put more books (my collection then was just a very small number compared to what it is now), or just because I wanted something different.
I remember that my grandmother got very upset when one of those changes had the head of my bed to the south. She insisted that people should never sleep with their heads to the south, but would never give me any reason that made sense. I'll admit that during that time (several years) I had more interesting dreams than I've had before or since, but am very skeptical that it's because of where my bed was.
In general I prefer evolution over revolution. But I suppose I've always been a bit of a coward in that regard.
Sometimes evolution requires revolution.
I've been in the same city my whole life, and I know there's a whole world beyond it. And I'm not exactly happy with where I live.
Same here. As the years went by, I realized that I'm more and more disconnected with this city I've lived in almost my whole life (there were those early years on the acreage that wasn't within city limits back then, but we did come into the city often and this is where my school was). I don't recognize a lot of what I see now when taking rides to appointments, and when people try to explain where something is and reference some business or landmark, chances are that unless it's in an old neighborhood or in the downtown core, I won't have a clue what they're talking about. Everything has changed so much over the past 25 years, and people are flabbergasted when they chatter on about some "old, established neighborhood" and I tell them, "I remember when that was a farmer's field or wetland that got paved over." Even the area of town where I live now... I remember a time before most of it was built. That was in the early '80s.
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