When you’re a kid, you don’t think about big stuff that could change your life. You think about small things that might terrify you —like a bad report card or missing a goal in front of all your friends or your friends no longer wanting to play with you. Because that's the biggest stuff you know. The biggest disappointments are all tied to this small little universe of yours, because bigger things cannot fit into a small universe. If you wanted bigger things in there you needed to have more room —or make more room. Perhaps you thought about your parents or your pets dying, which was rare. But all you knew was you would be terribly sad and lonely. And on those occasions when people or pets actually died, someone usually came along and distracted you from feeling too much of your actual feelings. Grownups did that —they never left you alone to feel alone or think alone too much. They tended to think you are too small to know how to think and feel in big heaps, so they took parts of your heap onto themselves. To help — but in the long run —it doesn’t help at all. Because if you do not see, or feel or think, or taste the bitter things in life, you don’t know they exist. You have not seen enough of the world to know how terrible it could be. And unfortunately for Sam, this inability to process change persisted into adulthood. Adelheid Manefeldt
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It is very hard to deal with change. It is very hard to meet new people, new places and change the things that are familiar to you. But sometimes, this is something that you have to do. When you are an adult, you should try to change the things that are not familiar to you –the things that do not bring happiness –and try to create new things that bring joy into your life.

Source: Consequence

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