change

It's hard to change your habits. If the life of our minds is like a forest, our ways of thinking and responding are like paths we've cleared through that forest, to get where we want or need to go. How much easier is it to walk down an existing path than to clear a new path? That's why, even when the paths we are on become dysfunctional and harmful to ourselves and others, we still hold onto those paths. We don't think we have a choice. Who can clear a path in the bush? 

We change when the old paths become unviable. Only then does it become conceivable to forge new paths. It seems like the end of the world, but it's the beginning of a new world.