Adaptability

We adapt so easily.

New environments and routines
Become the norm so quickly.
We adjust to the change,
Settling in.
Modern technologies are
Assimilated into our lives
Such that we can barely
Remember life before.
What did we do previously?

I guess this is how we've survived
For so long
Where other species have not.
Our adaptability
Is our greatest strength.

So why is it so hard to change what people think?

Why is there that initial resistance?
The transitional period where
Pioneers and the forward-thinking
Are mocked and dismissed
As renegades and madmen.

So many cases across our history.
So many once-common beliefs
Now alien to the majority.
So many condemned as heretics
Only to be revered as martyrs
In generations to come.

Here's hoping we learn.
Change.