Change

People change for many reasons. Some for personal reasons, some for the betterment of the collective good, and some to appease others. Desire will see if this change takes place or will it eventually be shelved in the "for another day" part of their minds. If it is done with a half baked desire then the result will be half-baked. Do people really change themselves as they grow older? or the new "attributes" and "attitudes" that they adopt are merely layered on something that is already there?

Many time I thought myself to have changed for the better only to find out at a much later time that the "change" is merely temporary. A temporary move from the habitual activities or "strongly" held perspective on things. Though few divergence have led to very interesting discoveries but majority of these are, at a much later time and through much deliberation, the same old experience and with the same old outcome.

Of late I realize, for sure this time, that the change I've come through these last 5 years are on the periphery, mostly, while the core remains relatively unchanged. I re-discovered that the things that moved me several years ago still does move me with the same intensity as it did once. The way I approach the pleasant and unpleasant things in my daily life remains relatively similiar. And what I once like and dislike, I have learnt to dislike and like too.

Like many things in life, change is never black-and-white. When one door closes, another opens. Ultimately, its your choice what changes and what doesnt, in your life that is.