Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope. Peter Straub
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Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder.

Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope. Onward and upward looks like a walk in the park when you’re well-grounded and happy with what you’ve got. But when you feel like you’ve been kicked in the gut by life and you want to crawl under a rock and hide there for awhile … well … then change can be difficult: You want everything to stay the same because you don’t want anything to change.

Source: Brief Lives

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