The Side Effects of Adaptation
[Cover art created by me]
Adaptation can be very good, it is something that can help one go through almost any situation they find themselves in. By 'adaptation' this Cambridge definition is what I mean:
to change, or to change something, to suit different conditions or uses.
Examples of adaptation are:
A man goes to jail and no longer has the freedom to go outside like he'll like, eat what he wants, etc. At first this is painful and hard to live with. But with time he adapts. His urges to go outside to bars, clubs, malls, or just outdoors starts to reduce. So does his urges to do all the things he is restricted from doing.
A man who's lived in a mansion all his life with maids doing all the chores and taking care of him loses everything and has to live in a small apartment in a less choicy part of town this throws him into discomfort the scale of which he's never known so he adapts, he learns to do his chores himself and take care of himself. He learns to earn his keep.
Some people actually adapt better than others, but at least in situations like in the examples the better you are at adapting, the better for you. There are situations where adaptation is not good, though, and that is when you adapt too well to situations/conditions that are temporary (but difficult and not serving the purpose of trainin), or that you are supposed to be actively fighting your way out of. Example: poverty, an abusive relationship, etc.
In these situations the key problem we can all agree to is adapting too well to them and the reason we all think that is a problem is because we know that:
• adapting too well would keep us there longer than we should be and would make it harder for us to function in normal/better conditions when we get better conditions at last. And these are the side effects we're talking about.
We don't want to be in difficult situations that are not serving the purpose of training for too long nor stay with an abusive partner for too long, and we don't want to find it difficult to function in normal/better conditions when they come. You don't want to stay in poverty or an abusive relationship for too long, and you don't want it to be difficult to function in a life of abundance or with a non-abusive partner.
But regardless of what we want these are things that can happen to us. We can find ourselves in these situations and find ourselves adapting too well to them, and that is a tragedy. And that is a tragedy we should all try our best to avoid.
The End
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