Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki
Everything is changing. And sometimes, at a rate that we rarely notice until we realized that we are left behind. The only thing that never changes is change itself.
I am year older.
As I look back (which by the way is something that I am not fond of doing) over the last two decades that passed, I have changed considerably in many ways. Some of these changes were conscious efforts, but some were something that somehow crept-in overnight. I also noticed that I somehow lost my consistency.
Many things that took place in those years change me in ways that I am still trying to figure out if I have to accept them and let life, let it be.
No.
We should strive to change into something better as a daily positive experience, as a habit, as a lifestyle. Things change –that is inevitable. However, when changes do occur in us, let those be to something that will make us into better person, good role-model, and eventually, a better neighbor.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France