Change

As designers, well up and coming designers change is a very important thing for us. We have to keep up to date with latest trends and new technology and the ever advancing world, but I sometimes feel that change isn't particularly very good. I don't really like change, I hate to see somewhere from my hometown or childhood to have changed when I get back from being in Dundee because I feel when things are changed the memories of that place change with them.

I remember being in 6th year at high school and being soooo annoyed when the cafeteria changed from square tables to round tables and I remember coming home and ranting to my parents about it and mum said to me you'd think it was a life or death matter the way you are going on about it......

But to me it seemed so important, (at the time) looking back now doesn't seem so important however my point is I don't like change when it directly effects me. I like to be organised, I like things to run in a particular order and have a routine I can stick to. And when something mucks with my routine I get agitated. Still talking of the same situation with the round tables, I remember a friend of mine, a very free spirited friend might I add, said 'I love change, it's such a breath of fresh air, don't you just get board of the same old same old.....'

This got me thinking today, I enjoyed first year of university so much I didn't want to go home at summer and couldn't bear the thought of not seeing all my friends for months but second year hasn't quite been the same. I have been taken completely out of my comfort zone and dropped somewhere where nothing is the same as before, all I keep doing is reminiscing about how great first was and not been enjoying second year to it's full potential. I believe alot of this has got to do with my friends. People change. Friends change, people move on and I think this is something I need to understand, something I need to get to grips with because no matter how hard I try to hold onto the past, although it never changes, holding onto it isn't going to stop the future. I would love for things to just go back to the way they were, but I think I'm in need of a fresh start, a 'breath of fresh air,' after all if I am going to become a successful designer I need to get used to it, make the most of it because in todays ever developing society you have to be ready for whatever life throws at you and hopefully design something that will help explain the 'ever changing' world to someone else.

There's no point clenching to the past hoping it will stay the same forever because in reality this never happens and its our job as designers to try and change the world we live in, make people perceive it differently, open people's eyes to new experiences and hopefully change some things for the better.