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How Bad, How Good, Does it Need to Get?
What would make you change your ways?
Tracy Chapman fans will find the title of this article familiar. It’s part of the lyrics from her song, Change.
If everything you think you know
Makes your life unbearable
Would you change?
Would you change?How bad how good does it need to get?
How many losses how much regret?
What chain reaction
What cause and effect
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget
Makes you change
Makes you change
People make all sorts of resolutions with every New Year. But few ever change their ways. Because it’s hard to change. Change requires self-reflection, and most people don’t want to go there.
There are all sorts of reasons that people behave the way they do. And, it is useful to have an understanding of those reasons — things like childhood trauma, abuse, fear, lack of awareness, or lack of intelligence — if you don’t want to become consumed with anger, or outright hatred, for those who simply continue to act in ways that are…
