It’s Non-Destructive Change
I woke up today only to find that my timeline was full of nothing but a bunch of tweets written by a disappointed crowd, dedicated to a whole lot of people who are all playing a game of self-shifting; they have changed.
I came to the realization that people get heart broken when their friends change, they feel abandoned; they feel as if they’re being left behind, hanging onto memories, left with new personalities that they can’t quite recognize. And then comes the shock, disapproval, trials and errors to bring the person you once knew back, till disappointment follows and then nothingness prevails. They either become strangers because they can’t seem to get along with their friends’ new individuality or they spend the rest of their lives blaming them for it. We don’t fear disappointment, we fear change.
Usually change happens for a reason and it happens after a struggle, whether it’s external of internal. And sometimes it just happens, in a blink of an eye, because you’re bored. There’s nothing wrong with some new insight if it doesn’t turn you into a monster that forsakes his surrounding crowd. It’s tolerable if you choose to change who you are or the way you’ve been living your life since you were a teenager because this is growing up, and it changes you into becoming a better person. I bet everyone has at least once felt that they would like to take their life and bury it away in some spam folder where no one would ever know of its existence. Boredom knows no master and when it knocks on your door, you can’t help but fight it off. That’s when you choose to change.
There is nothing that is unchangeable in this world, even every breath you take is different. Only an egocentric narcissist wouldn’t understand when he sees people changing, when he has discounted the fact that he has changed himself. It’s a universal fact now that people come and go, and change is part of who we are. A little understanding will do us no harm; a little peace with everything and everyone around us will get us by, and will keep the disappointment away, at least when it comes to change.
