Changing Perspective

Changing Perspective ‘The reactions to change can vary depending on the change itself’ To what extent has your study of change demonstrated this? Change varies depending on the change itself. My study of ‘change’ has demonstrated that a dramatic situation normally leads to a dramatic response, a less dramatic change tends to evoke a less dramatic response. In The Stolen Children, Their Stories, edited by Carmel Bird, the personal accounts of the stolen children tell …

…of children, the capitalisation of white society upon indigenous families, the ostensibly lofty ideals of government bodies, the debasement of children by their carers, the forcefulness of close family members, the bias and subjective attitudes to events, is that change dictates our lives. Change can be both forced and natural, covert and dramatic, but it is how we interpret and respond/react to this change which will shape our own perspectives and our own lives.