adapting to change
Survival of the species is not down to strength or intelligence, according to Darwin (and the accuracy of his theories is not what I'm debating here), but it's ability to adapt to change. That's a sentence I heard at work today.
God, I should be extinct. If there's one thing I hate is change thrown at me. Personally, professionally, in every -ally possible, I hate anything new coming to take away the control I have over my life. It doesn't even have to be about control, it's seems most of these days changes in large scale systems are not about putting people first. People first, I just realised that's the tagline of a health company I'm vaguely aware of, and the cynic in me wonders how they justify that to their accountants every month and whether "people first" is clever marketing strategy, covering up every capitalists dream; "profits first."
And yet everywhere I ever choose to work will always be profit driven and I think it sickens me. I don't know how money can be made out of people's needs in this case healthcare, but even elsewhere, out there, in a world that isn't healthcare, the world is profit driven and people (either the people working at the bottom or the people purchasing) do not matter and I don't like that. The only places I can imagine profit isn't everything is academia or the public healthcare sector, but maybe I am delusional.
It all needs to stop bothering me to this extent because this is the world we live in and if I can't adapt to that and I can't change, what will I do?
South of the Tower of London, just as you walk of Tower Bridge, you get a view of the Castle, and as your eyes scan leftward, you see the monument, the Gherkin and the other amazing large buildings that make up the central London skyline, Heron Quays building being the newest. And I think from this amazing view you can see London changing, adapting, why it's still here and still so amazing. This river that's seen thousands of lives lived out alongside it's banks. The castle that once defended the city, to the new large modern office buildings, yes, generating profit. Life has changed and this skyline contains the history of it and it's evidence that things can't stay the same. I've got to learn to accept change, because life otherwise would be quite impossible.
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