{"id":2025,"date":"2014-01-12T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2014-01-08T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T04:37:56","slug":"our-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=2025","title":{"rendered":"Our Changing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Our-Changing-World.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2039\" alt=\"Our Changing World\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Our-Changing-World-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Our-Changing-World-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Our-Changing-World.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We live in a constant, changing world. (Pardon the oxymoron!) With our current technology, by the time a new science text book comes out, it\u2019s outdated. New things are being discovered all the time. Countries have different names than they had years ago. Words have different meanings. Our Information Age is on an accelerated course of change, change, change! So much so, that you can kiss some of the stuff you memorized in school goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Istanbul was Constantinople.<\/li>\n<li>Gay meant happy.<\/li>\n<li>A mouse was a little rodent.<\/li>\n<li>Television news was not considered entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>A driver just drove the car.<\/li>\n<li>AIDS used to help at the principal\u2019s office.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone believed there was a Holocaust.<\/li>\n<li>Math was arithmetic.<\/li>\n<li>Marriage meant the legal union of a man and woman.<\/li>\n<li>Cape Kennedy was Cape Canaveral.<\/li>\n<li>There were nine planets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I must admit I\u2019ve been a bit disillusioned since they decided Pluto was no longer a planet.<\/p>\n<p>Change is not always a bad thing. In fact, our survival could be contingent on our ability to adapt to change. The book Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson is about dealing with change in the workplace and in life. His parable is about two little people the size of mice named \u201cHem\u201d and \u201cHaw\u201d and two mice called \u201cSniff\u201d and \u201cScurry.\u201d Each day all four happily locate their daily dose of cheese, but when the cheese is moved, what will they do? Hem screams, \u201cIt\u2019s not fair!\u201d Haw stands frozen in shock. However, Sniff hunts for more cheese with Scurry following close behind. A cute story, but it has a powerful message. Whether, we like it or not, change will always be with us. If we don\u2019t somewhat adapt our way of thinking, then we will not know what\u2019s going on in the world. Sometimes we either adapt or get left behind or die.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, people in Biblical times faced this same challenge. When Jesus came, they had to choose whether or not to be tied to an Old Covenant way of thinking, filled with rituals, legalistic laws and regulations, or accept the message Jesus brought. Believe on me and be saved! The old way led to death, the new way to life. Would people embrace this new way of thinking? Many did; some did not. Change is hard.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry about me! I can change. Just give me a little time. Let\u2019s see\u2026Pluto was a planet\u2026but now it\u2019s not a planet anymore\u2026but it might be a dwarf planet\u2026but Pluto is still Mickey Mouse\u2019s dog. Let\u2019s hope that never changes! But even if Disney Studios decides to rename him Uranus, I will adapt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a constant, changing world. (Pardon the oxymoron!) With our current technology, by the time a new science text book comes out, it\u2019s outdated. New things are being discovered all the time. 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