It’s not as fun or as exciting as it was years ago.  Seeing it through new eyes versus filtered, scarred and experience-filled eyes, tends to alter and warp what was once perceived to be “perfect” or “beautiful”.  No matter how hard you swim against the tide and swing at the windmills Don Quixote style, it will never truly change the progression of things. Good or bad, things evolve and you are either tasked with the challenge of steering them into the future or become the anchor that will eventually be severed by the ship of progress- regardless if you agree with that progress. 

Things have to change. They have to evolve. Even if evolution is eventually the thing that kills the industry.  Dinosaurs were going to become extinct regardless. You can sit on the sidelines and tell everyone “I told you so”, but you and I both know that nothing good will ever come of that. Even if you are right, nobody will remember you being right in the months to come.  They will be trying their best to look for something positive to sell and troubleshooting to the point to where it covers the tracks of mistakes that were made along the way. You may be right, but progress will trump you. 

In the end, what truly is “right”?

So what are you going to do?  You cannot sit and long for the ways it once was. You can I guess, but it will do you absolutely no good. You are not going to wake up one day and see it all just fall in line with your beliefs. You can’t give up and cling to whatever you are comfortable with in an effort to stretch your time. You can’t throw stones at progress and expect karma to just skip you in the process. The world is not designed to adapt to you.  

You adapt. You climb. You play the game and feed the catalysts of this progress with smart, well timed and thought out questions. You plant seeds of big picture thought and momentum and not seeds of doubt.  You water those thoughts and ideas with reminders and not with complaints riddled with negativity. You move forward with progress and time out your “attack” on the establishment.  This is not one of those moments where you jump ship, start out on your own and use all of your energy to regress and attempt to turn back the time on progress so that things remain familiar. You can fight technique and direction, but progress, momentum and evolution will never be trumped or overpowered. 

The world moves forward and so should you.  If you move on your own, you will never have to worry about being drug along or run over by progress.