CHANGE IS THE POINT

Change is the point. It’s a concept which I try to orient my life towards. I’ve tried in the past to encapsulate something that reflects my process, however, after sometime, these no longer seem broad enough. 

So I thought: how do I conceptualise something that consistently and sustainably reflects this change? And I arrived at this. The whole point of everything is to change. To not get locked in dogma; to not become rigid in my approach; to appreciate the process of being wrong; to respect the vulnerability of being broken. 

It’s for this reason that I come to you now – not to help me realise something that I can intellectually articulate. But to shatter the paradigm of what I know presently as to enter into what I don’t. Napoleon said: “I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know.” Change doesn’t occur otherwise; this mythological process has been demonstrated time and time again.

Joseph Campbell most famously documented this as the Hero’s Journey; but in its essence, it is the mythology of change. As Campbell established, the guide; the coach; the mentor is indicative of supernatural aid, the figure who’s straddles the known and unknown assisting the adventurer cross the first threshold. 

In Campbell’s words: “What such a figure represents is the benign, protecting power of destiny. The fantasy is reassurance… that it supports the present and stands in the future as well as the past.”

You’ve asked me to come to you with what I want from this relationship. My best and most honest answer is I don’t know. Show me what I don’t know; demonstrate to me that I’m wrong; dismantle my presuppositions; challenge my beliefs around potentiality. 

I want the change. Because that’s uncertain. And change is the point.