Being set in your ways means the loss of so many new experiences

We only live once, I think, so maybe we all need to do an audit about the extent to which we are set in our ways. Photograph: iStock

The Coronation Street fan was an older person, but it’s a mistake to see “getting set in your ways” and not wanting to be “put out” as an attribute only of older people. Everyone might benefit from becoming more sharply aware of how this works in their own lives. Looking up the Irish experience, I find that “school refusal” has been rife since the pandemic, according to Parentline, with about 60,000 children not showing up to school daily on any given day. “Many children are sick or absent with good reason. But thousands of others have simply refused to attend, despite the pleadings of their parents.”

Pandemic aside, how many businesses have suffered because the people running them were completely locked into “how we have always done things” and wouldn’t put themselves out to meet new challenges or to adapt to new markets and new ways? We only live once, I think, so maybe we all need to do an audit about the extent to which we are set in our ways. Then maybe we need to pledge to allow ourselves to be “put out” more often.Padraig O’Morain is accredited by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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