The Paradox of Status Quo

Much have been said about the subject of status quo, and with all conflicting thoughts out there on this topic, I’m done sifting and have decided to chip-in my two-cents-worth on the ?????????????? ???? ???????????? ??????.

True, being in constant romance with the status quo is akin to the feeling of a frog eternally frolicking in the comfort of a pond, completely unmindful that he is slowly polluting his pond while shunning the reality of better and fresher ponds outside.

But we cannot just devalue status quo completely.

The comfort we naturally feel in the status quo springs from the value we attach to the achievement of that state when we were just in the process of attaining it or even earlier, when we were still just planning of achieving it. Hence, it is very much constructive to soak in it, for a time. But as nature depicts, we naturally grow over that. Why?

I would look at it from the prism of rungs in our achievement ladder. The moment we start believing a higher level of comfort in moving to the next step up that ladder, discomfort in the status quo naturally comes into the scene. This when its creative influence starts pumping our emotions, our mental syntax, our reaction patterns and our instincts - all for the purpose of improving ourselves. If you don’t feel these drives in your aversion to the status quo, then you’re just descending into senseless boredom.

Remember, we are either improving or degrading. And our uneasiness with the status quo could push us in either direction.