Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Change The WorldAn entire world's perspective, its identity and personality, can change with a single discovery. It's almost instantaneous. 1500 years ago, everyone believed and even Science knew that the world was flat. We had every reason to. It was a fact. Just as the way we think, presently, that space-time is curved. But the world isn't flat, is it?
No really, is it? And is space-time curved?
No really, is it? The fact of the matter is, we don't know anything for sure. Things change all the time. Do people?
It always seems so much harder for an individual to change than for a community to. The characteristics of an individual are less easily swayed by the so-called winds of change than that of a community's. A human's innate and personalized idealism always has this power to make him or her change. People are never satisfied with what they already have. It's human nature not to be satisfied. If you're completely satisfied, you're not human. Thus, everything always has to be so dynamic. If we are constantly changing then, why is it so hard each time? Why do we obsess over it so much? Do we even need to change?
I believe that the difficulty of change lies within letting go that which is to be changed, or the acceptance of that which has been changed. Batman told us that "it's what we do that defines us." Well, he's right. When people begin to change, they change what they do. Doing different things are difficult because the usual activities you're so gleefully used to feel like home. Changing requires courage to leave home, the discipline not to mess it up, and the responsibility to keep it up. And quite frankly, each of us go through so many things to muster up the audacity needed. We mistake bravery with insecurity and become obsessed with change. We say things like, "Magbabagong-buhay na ko." We drown ourselves in that innate idealism we so-long pursue. Henceforth, we become unhappy with who we are presently, turning that insatiable thirst for dynamics against us. We do change a lot. But most of this change comes naturally. If done with force, we would lose identity and end up not changing the way we're meant to or not changing at all. There are certain things we have to accept about ourselves despite the change we try so hard to instill. No one's as great as he/she thinks he/she is. We all have excess baggage. The question is, how much and which ones are you willing to carry?
Just go with it.
the adventure ended at 8:53 PM
