Little things...

Sometimes, little things can make a huge difference. And slightly bigger things make a HUGE difference.

Let's take, for instance, the lack of certain people at work lately. Many of my coworkers are done for the summer, or are off on a trip before returning to finish for the summer. There are only a few of us left. The dynamics in the building are VERY different, and it's weird. It's good in some ways, but in other ways I really don't like it. First of all, it's much quieter. I like that to a certain extent, but sometimes when it's too quiet, it's almost creepy. Next, the interactions are so very different when there are only a few people to interact with. Some people are more positive than others, and some people are more talkative than others. It's just interesting to see how things go.

That's just one example, but even just a small mindset change makes a big difference. One little thing shifts, and all of a sudden everything's different than it was before. Bigger mindset changes can be even more difficult.

I find myself in one of those phases where the mindset is changing. Not all of it is by choice, and that makes the shift even harder. What amazes me, though, is that I am struggling with this mindset shift very differently than I thought I would. It's hard, but hard in ways that I didn't expect. Things that I thought would be affected aren't, and things that I didn't expect to be affected are.

Why is it that things rarely go the way we expect? I don't even care that things don't go the way we hope...I just wish that when things have to shift, we could be better prepared for all that comes with the shift.