Change is the only certain thing in life they say. That and death. But I am not going to talk about death here because I don't know anything about it! I know a few things about change though. Like how it can in it's arcane ways make you feel ecstatic one instant and the next instant you want to hide in a corner from the whole world wishing nobody ever heard of you. One instant you're on top of everybody's charts and then you're the last person anyone wants to bump into.
Of course without change life would suck terribly. Nobody would have any imagination. You'd still be stuck at the same place doing the same thing after ten years. Twenty years. A whole eternity. Progress would stop and this world would see day after day after day pass by with no spectacular occurrences.
And yet people are afraid of change. Nothing might be so mind-boggling without change but then things aren't unsettling either. Some people live in apprehension and fear all their lives... pondering about what might become of them... what they will or will not make of their "insignificant lives"... does anything last forever? Hope? Love? Friendship? What if something happens that will change everything? Change. Something that invokes fear and anticipation. Change. Something that you know will change your life but you have no clue if it will be for the better or for the worse. Now some may argue that everything happens for the best but honestly... how often do we KNOW what good has come out of certain things... How do we know what disaster someone has averted by losing a limb? Is it for the better? Maybe. How so? No one knows.
So what is it about change that makes it so hard to live with it or live without it? Do all of us need this uncertainty to go on? I am thinking we do. What's a race when you know for sure who's going to win it and how? Maybe change is what makes life. Or maybe change is life. So when people say only death and change is ever certain... they're really talking about life and death. Or are they? Maybe :)
7 comments:
Its really strange how u put words to my feelings in this post.. I didnt know ppl who thought lik em existed in out there. :P
Amazing!!! :) :)
I read only the title and thought to change the page :P
gulp :)
Hmm, interesting and valid thoughts here Swati! I think of the same quite a few times. In a few aspects, it is better of if there aren't any changes. But, most of the time nothing is certain aka everything changes! A good post! Well-written too!
@Kertz - You're a liar :P You did read it!
@Bros - Thank you :) In some aspects a life without changes would be alright but in some ways a stuck-up future seems scarier to me than a future that has a 50% probability of something good in its coming.
The only thing certain in life is change.
The natural entropy that is life
Swati, 'tis a long journey that very few souls know the answer to :)
Welcome to the real world.
I am glad I got back here aftr long:) Anything more?:)
Cheers!
@DPhat - If that's true then I have been in the real world for as long sas I can remember. Just never did put my thoughts out in the open for others to read and tell me what you just told me... or call me a nutso. Thanks :)
@Chew - Thanks so much :) Good to see you back here
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