Fight Or Flight

Everyone gets to a point sometime, where matters become so difficult that you feel you need to throw up your hands and say "I give up". You take flight. And it seems to work at first. The burden you were carrying has gone, and you feel free of whatever it was that bothered you. But the elation doesn't last long. We have this human thing called conscience and it's the bit that lies hidden away only to pop out and remind us that every action we make has a reaction. Most of the time, what we "dropped" or thought we did, comes back to haunt us. We want to go over the situation, to think about it and to analyse it to see if what we did was the right thing to do. Did it work? Are there regrets? Did it have repercussions? How will it be judged? If the action passes all the tests your conscience puts forth, you will know that what you did works and you feel satisfied. But much of the time, flight rather than fight, is not a good idea. More likely, it's better to stay with the problem and work it out even if results, at first, are not highly successful. At least you've given it a shot. An example of this matter that I ran across recently was when an organization I started, appeared to be waning. Interest flagged and I began to feel concerned that I should pass the running of it to someone else. There was a person more than willing to take over, who had been waiting in the wings. It would have been so simple to just give up and hand over the whole thing to that individual. They would have done a good job but it wouldn't have been my idea of how things should go.  I slept on the matter, which is usually required before making a decision. What I discovered was, that my original idea for the organization had run its course, but that there were other possible avenues to explore. After some self-brainstorming, I came up with a very different, but positive tack and reorganized in a way that I hoped might work. It would bring new life to the picture and possibly add some enthusiasm when certain aspects were embellished. The bottom line was that I didn't take flight but got up a little fight and made changes. And while they have not been put fully into play, there is a new beginning and new interest already. I feel better about the organization and myself, too. Fight not flight!