Unavoidable changes are issues that were, are, and will be with all the people until the end of the humans’ world.
The world is continuously changing. Coronavirus epidemic reminded me (I suppose that I was not the only one) of this fact. Since the beginning of humankind, the world of people has been changing. I will not mention earlier major transitions in people’s world. Still, the fact is that there were both positive and negative causes of changes. Which ones? For example, the Industrial Revolution changed, forever, the level of people’s lives and industrial technologies to a remarkable degree. It was somewhat a positive change.
Nevertheless, without the Industrial Revolution, perhaps, there would be no communism and a Cold War.
Two World Wars of the XX century also provided unavoidable changes. From the perspective of my Polish nation, the First World War provided independence in 1918, after 123 years of being banished from the maps of Europe. On the other hand, the First World War provided a steady ground for Hitler to create Nazis politics. Nazi politics led to the Second World war, the Holocaust and the total change of maps of the world, and the balance of power. In 1945, after the Second World War was over, my country “lost” its two main cities (Vilniaus and Lviv). Still, on the other hand, we “received” Szczecin and Wroclaw (in German: Breslau).
These unavoidable changes were imposed in advance for Poles. We, once again in history, lost our independence.
Usual Poles practically did not have any influence on all these changes. The Soviets were the ones who started to rule Poland. Luckily, in 1989, the USSR collapsed, and Poland, once again, received freedom.
After this year, we were slowly, continually making progress in reaching the level of people’s living in broadly defined Western countries.
Today (I wrote this post on the fifth of April 2020), we have an epidemic of coronavirus. The pandemic will change people’s lives forever. How? I do not know, and I cannot provide answers because I am not clairvoyant. I can only imagine that more companies will give their employees the possibility to work remotely more often.
Moreover, I can imagine that measuring the temperature will be one of the parts before entering the airplane. What I want to stress today that unavoidable change, the variances for which we do not have much influence, still exist in our world. Thus, it is better (and probably healthier) to accept them rather than afraid and fight with them.
