Alternatives for Change

Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.

Today's word is:

The only thing constant, is change. And on this, the second day of the New Year, it seems more than coincidental that the next word on my list of over used words just happens to be, CHANGE.
Change is the one thing we can be sure of. It applies to all aspects of our lives. Embrace change, it is your brother/sister. It is at the heart of all we do.

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do." Gandhi. 

These words have been simplified, rewritten, changed into something with which we are all more familiar: Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.

about-face, adapt/adaptation, addition, adjust/adjustment, advance, alter/alteration/alternate, amend/amendment, avatar

barter, become different, blacken, bleach, bleed, break

compression, contraction, convert/conversion, correction

deepen, deformation, deoxidization, deoxidation, depart from, departure, derivation, develop/development, deviate/deviation difference, discolor, displace/displacement, distortion, diversification/diversify/diversity, diversion, doctor, dye

edit, evolve/evolution, exchange

fade, fluctuate/fluctuation

give way, gray,

inconstancy, inflexion, innovate/innovation, interchange, introduce new blood, inversion

jibe

lighten

make different, make way for, mellow, metagenesis, metamorphose/metamorphosis, moderate, modification/modify, modulate/modulation, mood, mutate/mutation

novelty

oscillation

pale, permutation, permute

qualification/qualify

recast, reconstruct/reconstruction, rectification, redden, redesign, redo/redoing, refashion/refashioning, refine/refinement, reform/reformation, regulate/regulation, relieve, remake/remaking, remodel/remodeling, remove, reorder, reorganize, replace/replacement, reshape, resolution, restyle, revamp/revamping, reversal/reverse review, revise/revision, revolution, rework/reworking, run

shift, shuffle the cards, substitute/substitution, surrogate, supersede, swap, switch

take a turn, tamper with, tarnish, tempering, trade, transanimation, transmigration, transfiguration/transfigure/transfigurment, transference, transform/transformation, transition, transmute/transmutation, transubstantiation, turn, turnover, turn the corner, tweak

vamp up, variance, variation, variety, vary, vacillate, veer, vicissitude

warp, wax and wane, whiten, whole new ball game

yellow

Change as in money

abundance, allowance

banknote, bankroll, big bucks, bill, bomb (British), boodle, bread, bucks, buddle, bundle

cabbage, capital, cash, cashier’s check, change, check, chips, chump change, coin, coinage, currency

dead presidents, dibs, dime, dollar, dough, draft,

earth

finances, folding money, fortune, funds

gold, green, greenbacks

jack

kale, king’s ransom

legal tender, lolly (British), long green, lot, lucre

mad money, means, megabucks, mint, mite, money order, moola

needful, note

opulence

paper money, peanuts, pelf, petty cash, pin money, pittance, pile, pocket money, pot

resources, riches, roll

scratch, scrip, shekels, shoestring, specie, spending money

tender, treasure

wad, wallet, wampum, wealth, wherewithal

WHAT CHANGES ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2014?

This song by the Scorpions is truly beautiful with a profound and simple message that is as relevant today as when it was first released. Happy New Year. 

Of Sand Castles, Fractals and Kaleidoscopes

What do these three things have in common?

They are all beautiful examples of the ephemeral, reminders that nothing lasts forever, that things change constantly.

I sometimes get grumpy about change just like anyone else, but I do make an effort to breathe through it because ultimately there's not a thing I can do about change except to accept it.

I have held off, until nearly the last possible minute, changing over to the *new* (not so new anymore) blogger program. I am being forced to use it and spent a good portion of yesterday trying to figure it out which is not exactly my idea of a good time.

Which means, this is my first post under the new system. I suspect (as with so many other computer programs and systems) that about the time I'm really comfortable and happy with it they'll come along with a new and improved version.

Sigh.

The only thing permanent is change. We all best get used to the idea and enjoy the scenery and each other while we can for it can change in an instant.

Fractals

Kaleidoscope


Do you handle change well, breathe through it and go on? Or do you fight change, worry about it and try to control it?