Adapting To A New Place Is Not For The Weak
Judy Ramsook
July 21, 2006
As we grow and live, we become accustomed to certain sounds and sights around us. It could be the hourly chiming of the grandfather clock in the hall or sitting room, the sound of the front door slamming as one’s father enters or leaves the house or the familiar sight of the things in your room when you wake up in the morning.
What happens when one has to uproot him or herself and take up residence in another place where those assuring sights and sounds are not heard or seen? How many of us are really strong enough to adapt and grow used to his or her new surroundings?
Adapting to something new is not for the weak, for it involves change. Something not many people like, for change can be challenging as well as frightening.
While we all know what we have now, since we are all not psychic, we may not know what lies ahead when we decide to make that step into another place in our lives.
One may, for instance, find him or herself living in a house that is smaller than the last one he or she lived in. Or worse, if he or she has been lured to a new city by the attraction of a high raise in pay and does not take the time to do research into such factors as the cost of living in that city or place, he could find himself not being able to save any money at all.
For he or she may be faced with higher utility bills in this new place when compared to the bills he or she had in the place he or she left to pursue the higher pay raise.
Plus frustration sets in as one also realises that life in that new place might not be all he or she thought it would be.
If it is a smaller place than where he or she came from, that person might have to deal with slower service and not as many different branches of nationwide stores as there were in his former place of residence.
If it is a bigger city, he may have other things to bother with, such as more traffic jams on the freeways and such, higher competition in the job market and higher cost of living expenses.
Some people find out the hard way that adapting to a new place without doing any prior research can be costly indeed.
No matter what station in life we may be, more money is something we will all long for, but be careful when saying yes to that job pay raise/relocation offer.
It will be beneficial to you in the long run to do some research into that place you will be thinking of moving to; for this adapting thing is not for the weak.
What happens when one has to uproot him or herself and take up residence in another place where those assuring sights and sounds are not heard or seen? How many of us are really strong enough to adapt and grow used to his or her new surroundings?
Adapting to something new is not for the weak, for it involves change. Something not many people like, for change can be challenging as well as frightening.
While we all know what we have now, since we are all not psychic, we may not know what lies ahead when we decide to make that step into another place in our lives.
One may, for instance, find him or herself living in a house that is smaller than the last one he or she lived in. Or worse, if he or she has been lured to a new city by the attraction of a high raise in pay and does not take the time to do research into such factors as the cost of living in that city or place, he could find himself not being able to save any money at all.
For he or she may be faced with higher utility bills in this new place when compared to the bills he or she had in the place he or she left to pursue the higher pay raise.
Plus frustration sets in as one also realises that life in that new place might not be all he or she thought it would be.
If it is a smaller place than where he or she came from, that person might have to deal with slower service and not as many different branches of nationwide stores as there were in his former place of residence.
If it is a bigger city, he may have other things to bother with, such as more traffic jams on the freeways and such, higher competition in the job market and higher cost of living expenses.
Some people find out the hard way that adapting to a new place without doing any prior research can be costly indeed.
No matter what station in life we may be, more money is something we will all long for, but be careful when saying yes to that job pay raise/relocation offer.
It will be beneficial to you in the long run to do some research into that place you will be thinking of moving to; for this adapting thing is not for the weak.
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