Crises are an integral part of human life. Doubts, anxiety and even despair seize us mercilessly sometimes. They can be excellent opportunities for personal growth, provided we deal with them effectively. Personal growth calls for some change. It may be a change of attitudes, environment, job or something else. Most of us don’t like change. Change frightens us with the uncertainty that inevitably accompanies it. Psychotherapist Sheldon B. Kopp wrote 4 decades ago (in his book, ‘ If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! ’) that the neurotic who comes to a therapist doesn’t want to change himself. “His goal is to become a more effective neurotic.” He doesn’t want to give up his neurotic feelings and attitudes because he is scared of the changes that would ensue. He would rather have his neuroticism and have the therapist make him feel more comfortable with it. Change is challenge to face the unknown. The misery of the familiar is preferred to the myste
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