Turn and Face the Strange
In this part, I would like to talk a bit about the changes we have in our life and how do we deal with them. Does the nature of a human being stay constant through all of his life or the time and the ambience have an ability to reconstruct the temper, redirect the path the things used to have before? This topic is quite interesting, it isn't a hundred percent clear for me either, so hereby I would write not the states, but the assumptions, proposals and ideas on it.
So how did I get this question and why is it so resonant for me? Recently we were chatting with my mate which I haven't been talking to for ages and suddenly she concluded that with the years I remain the same. Notwithstanding her additional corrections that it is a complement to my teenage sparkling manners of dialogue, my first persistence of this words was negative.
I wondered, am I that stuck on the point I used to be years ago? A bit later I got a paradox: we all want to remain the same youth passion for the life and ardor in the lifestyle, but apart from that we still want to change ourselves to have a personal growth. And from then on, the key is to find the balance between these two options. The first one is too risky to become infantile, so that you will not be able to understand the world of the people you are living in, while the society surrounding is becoming more and more adult. From the other hand, with an early unneeded growth, life could become just an empty process with a daily samsara wheel of work/sleep, making no sense and happiness. The verge is extremely thin, and reaching the harmony of the changes in life is very important, from my point of view.
Everything should enter your life at the time it is necessary and IMHO there's no point of delaying or outrunning it. Keep both: the youth inside and the endeavour to have a personal growth.
Nevertheless, I am blaming the people whose mind is too closed for something new. We live in 2017, the era of maximum available information, maximum abilities to live your dream, so c'mon, carpe diem! Why not? No one has seen the sun, gazing at his shadow, turning his back to it. Of course, it is a personal opinion, but I vote for the new, for the strange, for the experiments. Otherwise, it becomes a Chekhov's "Man in a Case" occasion. Taking an example, I appreciate very much some grandma's ability to use gadgets frequently even though they could lock themselves in their homes and concentrate on crosswords, sewing and knitting.
Finally, the biggest question — do we remain the same or are we different with time? Let me answer with the words of Arlen Price, we all know them in variations: "Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses".
My words could have a pretty simple or silly outlook, but for me, these things are quite crucial with defining personal wants and needs.
