by Aerynne Aiudi

Created on: April 30, 2009

Who embraces change more, women or men?

Would you like to come to my home one month and see where I've put my furniture, and then come back the next month and see the new "changes" I've made by moving said furniture around?

Change happens to us all if we are living and breathing and functioning on a daily basis. My husband shocked me last month though, by buying Fruit Loops instead of his standard Frosted Flakes cereal. I almost fell out of my chair when I didn't see Tony the Tiger smilingly staring at me from our breakfast shelf over our electric oven. I change cereal almost on a weekly basis. Sometimes it's Kellogg's Special K with red berries if I'm feeling ambitious about getting healthy; sometimes it's Cinnamon Life if I want to feel like a kid again and just get through the day. And change with me doesn't just stop with cereal flavors.

Music is my greatest change platform. Sometimes it's Elvis or the obscure yet popular Christian musician in Christian circles, Steven Curtis Chapman. Sometimes I funk up to Mary Mary or Fred Hammond, but sometimes Vivaldi and Chopin soothe my jagged nerves at the end of a hard work day.

My style of clothing has pretty much stayed the same since I was a freshman in high school, I'm still a buppie dresser, a black urban professional with my cardigans, my knee socks, my flat shoes (mostly Indian moccasins), and my blazers over turtleneck sweaters. Some things just shouldn't change ya know?!

But if we were gambling people, which we are not, I would counter that I change virtually every thing around me on a much more regular basis than my husband. He's worked at the same type of job, construction and contracting, for almost 40 years. I have basically worked in customer service / office work, but it has gone from McDonald's in the 80s, to Dunkin' Donuts a year ago, with stints as a secretary in between the 80s and the previous year. I have a certificate in personal training, paralegal studies, computer operations and nutritional science. My diversity has helped me in certain respects, but now I write not only because it's therapeutic and interesting to read other people's writings, but basically because my penchant for change in the job market and nine to five work a day world has exhausted all other vocational possibilities for me at this point in time.

So in conclusion, is change a good thing for both men and women? Ask my husband the next time I move the bed!

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