"Change is inevitable"

Change is inevitable.


Firstly, I would like to define the keywords in this topic: change, and inevitable. What is change? In this essay, I would like to define it as manmade changes, or changes made by us humans. As for inevitable, according to Longman Dictionary, is something which cannot be avoided or prevented from happening, which is also certain to happen. In other words, 'change is inevitable' simply means that (in this essay) manmade changes will always happen and they can't be avoided.


Why is change inevitable? Why do we change in the first place? Do we have a choice before all these changes occur? These are the key questions I ponder in this essay.


As included in my research, change is for the better or for the worst, depending on how you view it. It is certainly something that presses us out of our comfort zones. It may be uncomfortable, for changing one state to the next upsets our control over outcomes. To me, even though change may be uncomfortable, and it takes time to get used to the changes, however I think that change is won by victors not victims, and that choice is ours.

However that also does not apply to all circumstances. For example, nature is changing everyday. We cannot avoid how mother Earth is changing. We cannot change nature. We, humans can only adapt to nature’s changes. How do we adapt to nature’s changes? By changing. Isn’t adaption a form of change? We change, to adapt, to survive, to preserve our fundamental human right to continue our lives on mother Earth. All adaptations are changes that are needed to survive. So if you want to survive, you have to adapt to mother Nature’s changes by changing and under these circumstances, you don’t really have a choice. Let's just use the recent flooding of Orchard Road/ Scotts Road intersection as an example. When the flood occurred, there was a change in temperature and weather. It’s mother nature changing. What can we do then? We change too. We have to abandon our usual plans (e.g. shopping at Orchard Road), we have to change our usual way of working [for systems etc.] (e.g. The gates at the Marina Barrage were operated progressively from 8.30am onwards to allow excess storm-water to flow to the sea), (what I meant was) if this flood did not happen, the gates at Marina Barrage will still operate at its normal condition/timetable (which is not that active). Even the PUB has to do more research/investigation on this flood because it wasn’t a common flooding area and it’s last major flooding was in 1984, which was 26 years ago. Isn’t all these small changes, proving that us humans have simply no choice but to make changes (e.g. no shopping at Orchard Road, work more, have heavier workload) because of nature’s changes, be it gradual or sudden.


We may be able to predict the occuring of the floods (and other natural hazards), however we humans are still vulnerable. We cannot protect ourselves from these natural hazards. What we can do, is to flee. And change. We have to adapt to all sorts of climate and situations (which are changes) caused by mother Earth to survive.


Therefore, to me, change is inevitable because we have to do something (which is to adapt, to change) to survive, due to the constant changes of Mother Nature. Each manmade change is actually linked to each nature change. So for example when there's rain on a day which is supposed to be sunny (as in they predicted that it was a sunny day with no rain), you'll have to change your normal bagpack list and add on an umbrella. Or if there's a rainstorm, you'll have to postpone your plans to the beach. So I think change is inevitable, because we have to change to adapt to the changes that are caused by Mother Nature. And we humans change to survive, as we have simply no means to confront or resist nature's changes.

Steph .